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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

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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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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
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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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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
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The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.
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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.
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There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
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Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.
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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
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Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.
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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
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Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
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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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