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The perfect human being is uninteresting.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
Essayist
Ethnologist
Historian
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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