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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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Live the beauty or your own reality.
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
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Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
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Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
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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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At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.
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You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
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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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Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
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Rules such as Write what you know, and Show, don't tell, while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.
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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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To achieve the impossible it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
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Love is dope, not chicken soup.
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Don't be outraged, be outrageous.
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When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
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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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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
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