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How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Tom Robbins

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