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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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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
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As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
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Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
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Growing up is a trap, snapped Dr. Robbins. When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
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As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
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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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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
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