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You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Joseph Kanon

Joseph Kanon

Born: 1946 (age 79)
Bio: Joseph Kanon is an American author, best known for thriller and spy novels set in the period immediately after World War II.
Known for:
  1. Leaving Berlin (2015)
  2. Istanbul Passage (2012)
  3. The Good German (2001)
  4. The Prodigal Spy: A Novel (1999)
  5. Los Alamos (1997)

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