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One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
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Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
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Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny.
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