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The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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