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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.
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It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.
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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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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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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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Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
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I believed in looking at people as individuals, not in groups. I hated groups still do. And I saw particularly the university, the university artists really acted as a group. The others didn't so much, but the university people took advantage of that and behaved like a group, rather than as individuals. They had a lot of power that way.
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A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
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Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
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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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The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
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Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
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Don't be outraged, be outrageous.
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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
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I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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Live the beauty or your own reality.
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