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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
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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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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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When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
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We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
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Don't be outraged, be outrageous.
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O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
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My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
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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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From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
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The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.
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Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
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