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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Life
Begun
Changes
Already
Learned
Left
Thought
Live
Way

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Clean up your own mess.
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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.
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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