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It is impossible to prefigure the salvation of the world in the same language by which the world has been dismembered and defaced.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Defaced
Dismembered
Salvation
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