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Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.
William H. Gass
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William H. Gass
Age: 93 †
Born: 1924
Born: July 30
Died: 2017
Died: December 6
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Journalist
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Military Officer
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Fargo
North Dakota
William Howard Gass
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful to a fault and boded no ill but thought well enough of themselves to repeat their presences.
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And I am in retirement from love.
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I cannot walk under the wires. The sparrows scatter like handfuls of gravel. Really, wires are voices in thin strips. They are words wound in cables. Bars of connection.
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
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