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“I want to sit around a fire with rascals and bank robbers and ex-prisoners and Gypsies and Gurkhas and Aztecs and Apaches and talk about the afterlife and Voodoo and Witchcraft and prophesies and genius and star clusters. I want to sit with these people and discuss their anxieties and indecisions and what scares them. And I want to laugh at our spontaneity.”

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