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Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?
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I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
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She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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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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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
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Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
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