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Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.
Tim Winton
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Tim Winton
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 4
Novelist
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Perth
Australia
Timothy John Winton
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