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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.
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we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his no trespassing sign
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Magic things are fond of deceptions.
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The only question is how to make love stay.
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
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Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
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Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
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It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.
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Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
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Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
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I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
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I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
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Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
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Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
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Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
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