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keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball. (Tom Robbins)
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. View quote
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. View quote
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Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective. View quote
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The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy. View quote
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever. View quote
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The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world. View quote
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Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich. View quote
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Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land. View quote
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Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy. View quote
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She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. (Tom Robbins)
There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition. View quote
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I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners. View quote
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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water. View quote
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist. View quote
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There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act. View quote
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Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. View quote
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Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone. View quote
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I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December. View quote
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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws. View quote
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict. (Tom Robbins)
I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis. View quote
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Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear. View quote
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Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter. View quote
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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult. View quote
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