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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Edward Bond

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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
Men
Sane
Fragile
Mad
Pity
Lives
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