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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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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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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
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The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
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Rules such as Write what you know, and Show, don't tell, while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
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red hair is caused by sugar and lust.
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
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