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'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.
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Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
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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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As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
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The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.
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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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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
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Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
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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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As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
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Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms our world is made of language.
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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
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Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
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America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!
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