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James Dickey

"I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome."

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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time."
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