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Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
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The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
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Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
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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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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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Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing.
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I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
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Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.
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we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his no trespassing sign
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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
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