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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
Cages
Bars
Humanity
Existence
Keep
Human
Hollering
Humans
Rattling
Cage

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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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