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Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Jackson Pollock said once, I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive. He said, That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.
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Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
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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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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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Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
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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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If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.
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Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.
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Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
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Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.
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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
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When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
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Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.
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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
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