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It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
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They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
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Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
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When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
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Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
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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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The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.
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Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the end times, but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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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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You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
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The goal of this generation's pioneers should be to restrict procreation and limit consumption. They should also take every opportunity to make themselves happy, realizing that the key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.
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At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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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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