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Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

William Least Heat-Moon

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William Least Heat-Moon
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 27
Historian
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Come
Properly
Turned
Aren
Askew
Thoughts
Deriving
Source
Restriction
Free
Remote
Sense
Beware
Night
Sources

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