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IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?

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Tony Hillerman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: May 27
Died: 2008
Died: October 26
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Pottawatomie County
Oklahoma
Anthony Grove Hillerman

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You write for two people, yourself and your audience, who are usually better educated and at least as smart.
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