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Michael Pollan
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 6
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I try very hard to tell stories and not lecture. I try to approach things as an amateur and not an expert, so that when I'm doing something, I'm starting out in a place a lot like where my readers start out - which is to say, naïve.
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Rule No.37 The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
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