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Don't be outraged, be outrageous.

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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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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
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Our similarities bring us to a common ground Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
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It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.
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I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
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Madame Lily Devalier always asked Where are you? in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
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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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Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
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A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
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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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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?.
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Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
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Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.
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I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
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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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Summer had come to sit on New York's face.
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We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
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Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
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Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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