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What I am trying to do is bring people into grief in relation to the society we have.
Robert Bly
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Robert Bly
Age: 97
Born: 1926
Born: December 23
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Robert Bly
Robert Elwood Bly
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The older I get, the more beauty I see in the word renunciation.
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A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.
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I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.
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