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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
Critic
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Journalist
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Military Officer
Novelist
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Fargo
North Dakota
William Howard Gass
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The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.
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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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For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
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