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Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.

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Steve Toltz
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: January 1
Novelist
Writer
Sydney
NSW
Stephen Toltz
Freedom
Sometimes
Think
Thinking
People
Burning
Quickly
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