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Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

Robert Farrar Capon

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Robert Farrar Capon
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 26
Died: 2013
Died: September 5
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The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.
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