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What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
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New York
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