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Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
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The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
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