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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

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
Humans
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Lightness
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
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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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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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We could learn a lot from crayons some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
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An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
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A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
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Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
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We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.
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This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
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There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.
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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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