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My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
Analyze
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Trouble
Live
Life

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I can't be found in myself I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
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