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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.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.
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If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.
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First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
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Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
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Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
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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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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.
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It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
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I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
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The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
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I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
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