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I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
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If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.
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Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
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What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
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A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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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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Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
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I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
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Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.
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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
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You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
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To achieve the impossible it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.
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Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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Magic things are fond of deceptions.
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
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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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