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Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.

Tom Robbins

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