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Live the beauty or your own reality.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.
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A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.
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You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
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Magic things are fond of deceptions.
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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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How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
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Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
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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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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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Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
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Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
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I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
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I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
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Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
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This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
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If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
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