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The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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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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People of ze wurl, relax!
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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
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Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
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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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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
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Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
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The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
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You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
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Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
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