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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
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We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
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If you start a conversation with the assumption that you are right or that you must win, obviously it is difficult to talk.
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It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn against you, I break from you, I turn to you. We hurt, and are hurt, and have each other for healing. It is healing. It is never whole.
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