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To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this... is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Ernest Becker
Born:
September 27, 1924
Died:
March 6, 1974
(aged 49)
Bio:
Ernest Becker was a Jewish-American cultural anthropologist and writer. He is noted for his 1974 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Denial of Death.
Known for:
The Denial of Death
Escape from Evil
The birth and death of meaning (1971)
The Ernest Becker Reader
The Structure of Evil (1968)
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