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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. (Tom Robbins)
Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process. View quote
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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. View quote
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Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide. View quote
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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. View quote
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Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return. View quote
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Live the beauty or your own reality. View quote
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Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life. View quote
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It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse. View quote
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Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. View quote
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Summer had come to sit on New York's face. (Tom Robbins)
But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day. View quote
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Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. View quote
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You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. View quote
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Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues. View quote
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape. View quote
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Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart. View quote
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What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today. View quote
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John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' View quote
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salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. View quote
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If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. (Tom Robbins)
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. View quote
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Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the "end times," but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years. View quote
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There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety - garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one's self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar... and is devoted to the inessential. View quote
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If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. View quote
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