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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Zane Grey

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Zane Grey
Age: 67 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 31
Died: 1939
Died: October 23
Author
Baseball Player
Dentist
Film Producer
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Zanesville
Ohio
Life
Worth
Stains
Cold
Forgetfulness
Blood
Yield
Dark
Surely
Living
Suicide
Death
Inspire
Makes
Embrace
Better
Seek
Stain

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