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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Water
Often
Matter
Never
Washed
Love
Fades
Fabric
Adversity
Grief

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Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
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