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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
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The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
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Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.
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From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
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Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.
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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.
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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
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In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
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As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
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I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
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Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
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