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"I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff."
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Source: Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan
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