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Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
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I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.
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Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
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Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
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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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People of ze wurl, relax!
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Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
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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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Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
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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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Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.
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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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I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
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That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.
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There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
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Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.
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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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