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First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.

Tom Robbins

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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.
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Minds were made for blowing.
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what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
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