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At the typewriter you find out who you are.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.
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Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
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I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.
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In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
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Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
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Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
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Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
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I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
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Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
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The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
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As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
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We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
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Our similarities bring us to a common ground Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
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