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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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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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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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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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I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.
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And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
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The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.
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Jackson Pollock said once, I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive. He said, That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.
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Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
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Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
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We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
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Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
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First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.
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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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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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