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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
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We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
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Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
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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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As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
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Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
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The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
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The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.
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Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.
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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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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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