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I Write About Violence As Naturally As Jane Austen Wrote About Manners. Violence Shapes And Obsesses Our Society, And If We Do Not Stop Being Violent We Have No Future.

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I Write About Violence

Edward Bond

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I Write About Violence As Naturally As Jane Austen Wrote About Manners. Violence Shapes And Obsesses Our Society, And If We Do Not Stop Being Violent We Have No Future.

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