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I believe that human beings are desperate, always, to belong to something larger than themselves.
David Whyte
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David Whyte
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
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Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
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