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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.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
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When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
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That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.
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salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
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Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.
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Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.
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Don't be outraged, be outrageous.
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Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
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The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
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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 journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms our world is made of language.
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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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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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The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
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