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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
Edward Bond
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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