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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.

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
Every
Tremendous
Stay
Novel
Force
Doe
Feel
Feels

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