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We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
Author
Farmer
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry
Bread
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Wheat

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