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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

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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Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the end times, but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
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There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
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If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.
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Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
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Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
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A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
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I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
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John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'
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Eighty percent of love is smell.
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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
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