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Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.
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I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
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It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.
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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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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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I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
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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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Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
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Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
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A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.
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Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
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I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
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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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Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.
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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
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The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
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