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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

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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I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
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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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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.
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She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
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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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I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
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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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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
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What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
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Jackson Pollock said once, I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive. He said, That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.
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People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
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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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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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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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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
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It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.
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