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The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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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 would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
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what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
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Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.
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Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
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I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
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A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
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Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
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Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
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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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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well
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Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
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My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.
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