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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
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I'll bet I'm as old as you are. I'm older than Sanskrit. Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper. I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers. You win.
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Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
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The only question is how to make love stay.
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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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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
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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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One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
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Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
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Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?
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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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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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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
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Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
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To achieve the impossible it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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