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Working is very important to me. Probably because as a child I was taught that work was good. I don’t believe it intellectually but I identify with that idea. So it’s probably just like a habit.
Jasper Johns
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Jasper Johns
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 15
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I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
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