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The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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Hubert Selby, Jr.
Age: 75 †
Born: 1928
Born: July 23
Died: 2004
Died: April 26
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Transcend
Ego
Responsibility
Artist
Human
Humans

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