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Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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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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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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Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.
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Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
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We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
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Each time we exhale, the world ends when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.
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