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“Art . . . is . . . fundamental equipment for existence on human terms.” — Albert Murray
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Book Review and Commentary: Albert Murray’s Non-fiction – A Balm in Columbia
At his best, Albert Murray is a thinker passionately in love with thinking, a virtuoso of verbal music, an American to his core.
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