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“I had come to this city because I wanted to disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen. Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible.”

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Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth
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