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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
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When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
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Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.
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Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
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The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
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