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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.
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we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his no trespassing sign
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A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.
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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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The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
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Most novelists write about twisted lives.
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I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.
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Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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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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This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.
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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
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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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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.
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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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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms our world is made of language.
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I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
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You are what you think you eat.
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