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For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

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Steven Erikson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 7
Anthropologist
Archaeologist
Novelist
Writer
City of Toronto
Steve Rune Lundin
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None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
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I warn you all, hatred is finding fertile soil within me. And in your compassion, in your every good intention, you nurture it.
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