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Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

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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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
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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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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
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