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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

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
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Everything
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Overdoing
Thinking
Intimately
Temperament
Appreciation
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