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You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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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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Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
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