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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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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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I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified.
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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.
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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
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Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
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Jackson Pollock said once, I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive. He said, That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the end times, but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
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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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My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
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Each time we exhale, the world ends when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
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The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
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