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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.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.
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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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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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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
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The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.
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Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
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Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
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