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Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place.
Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
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- Garth Risk Hallberg
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- Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1978; activity date not established; Wikidata Q21980382, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21980382 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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