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If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

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Robert Penn Warren
Age: 84 †
Born: 1905
Born: April 24
Died: 1989
Died: September 15
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
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Guthrie
Kentucky
Idealist
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