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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Keep
Human
Hollering
Humans
Rattling
Cage
Cages
Bars
Humanity
Existence

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