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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Susan Cain

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Susan Cain
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
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Non-Fiction Writer
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