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You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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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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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
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A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
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O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
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You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
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I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
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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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The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.
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If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
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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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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.
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A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.
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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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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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There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.
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