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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

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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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
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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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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
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Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.
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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.
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'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
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Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
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Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
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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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