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Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.
Whit Stillman
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Whit Stillman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 25
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John Whitney Stillman
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Our roots are clinging, we shouldn't knock down so many old 'buildings.'
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