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Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

Tim Winton

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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
Felt
Wherever
Persons
Awake
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Room
Like
Rooms
Went
Full
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Sleepers

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