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Robert Fulghum, the part-time Unitarian minister whose gentle and humorous stories have made him a bestselling author many times over (beginning with
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten), pays tribute to the writers who inspired
him in
Words I Wish I Wrote. He confesses that at one particularly low moment in the late '50s, he was dredged up from the Slough of Despond by reading the works
Albert Camus, whose gaze over a deeper abyss gave Fulghum hope. It was that experience that led Fulghum to seek out writings with uplifting messages. The result is this compilation of brief passages from the likes of
Wallace Stevens ("After the final no there comes a yes"),
Tom Robbins ("Real courage is risking one's clichés"), and Buckminster Fuller ("God is a verb").
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Publishing phenomenon Fulghum, who declared All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, must have had some class. Here he sums up the works of thinkers who have influenced him, from Camus to Kafka to Proust.
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