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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Stupid
Done

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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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