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It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
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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 get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
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