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If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins : US novelist; wrote novels Skinny Legs and All 1990, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas 1994
Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Yesterday upon the stair,
I saw a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish that he would go away.

Hughes Mearns
Source: nursery rhyme [Psyco-ed: 1899 play, performed 1910; Antigonish: 1922 poem; unconfirmed]
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Robert Anson Heinlein : American science fiction writer
Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
 
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He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but precisely because of this darkness he felt his undertaking was the only guiding thread in this darkness, and he seized it and held on to it with all his remaining strength.

Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy : Russian novelist & philosopher
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
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