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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

Tom Robbins

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