People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permane…

Tom Robbins
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People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements. ✨ Tom Robbins (2003). Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, p.22, Bantam
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