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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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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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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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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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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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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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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.
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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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