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You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.
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…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.
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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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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
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