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There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

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Matthew Quick
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: October 23
Novelist
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Camden
New Jersey
Always
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Playbooks
Sloppy
Silver
Dirty
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