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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!

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Utah Phillips
Age: 73 †
Born: 1935
Born: May 15
Died: 2008
Died: May 23
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