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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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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
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They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.
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If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
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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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Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die - or kill - than entertain change. Consider how threatened religious fundamentalists of all faiths remain to this day by science in general and Darwin in particular.
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I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
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Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
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Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.
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Eighty percent of love is smell.
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.
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Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
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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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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
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When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
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Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
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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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