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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.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
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Eighty percent of love is smell.
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I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.
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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
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A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
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Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
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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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Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
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In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
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I'll bet I'm as old as you are. I'm older than Sanskrit. Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper. I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers. You win.
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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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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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