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Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

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Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Tom Spanbauer

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Tom Spanbauer

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

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Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

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The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you're here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

Tom Spanbauer

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

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Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

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The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Tom Spanbauer

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Tom Spanbauer

Tom Spanbauer

Tom Spanbauer

Born: June 30, 1946

Died: September 21, 2024 (aged 78)

Bio: Tom Spanbauer was an American writer whose work often explored issues of sexuality, race, and the ties that bind disparate people together. Raised in Idaho, Spanbauer lived in Kenya and across the United States.

Known for:

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon (1991)
I Loved You More (2013)
In the City of Shy Hunters (2001)
Now Is the Hour (2006)
Faraway Places (1988)

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