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Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Joy Kogawa

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Joy Kogawa
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: June 6
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Vancouver
British Columbia
Joy Nozomi Kogawa
Words
Language
Life
Clumsy
Tool
Soil
Till
Tools
Garden

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