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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

Thomas Pynchon

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Jr.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Dream
Many
Ills
Shelter
Blessings
Tonight
Blessing
Dreams

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