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That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.
Carl Andre
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Carl Andre
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: September 16
Artist
Illustrator
Land Artist
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Visual Artist
Writer
Quincy
Massachusetts
Carl André
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Alcohol
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I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.
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