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Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning or an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of the bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that question is: "Who knows how to make love stay?" (Tom Robbins)
He looked at her with that kind of painted-on seriousness that comedians shift into when they get their chance to play Hamlet. View quote
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All animals copulate but only humans osculate. Parakeets rub beaks? Sure they do, but only little old ladies who murder schoolchildren with knitting needles to steal their lunch money so that they can buy fresh kidneys to feed overweight kitty cats would place bird billing in the realm of the true kiss. View quote
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Let me see if I can put it in words that even the inebriated might understand. View quote
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...that she was the one who'd made friends with the Snake, that she'd let it lick the blood of her first menstruation, that she ... ooo eee, that she ... ooo eee, that she ... ooo, eee, that she now knew what the Serpent knew. View quote
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Above the building, the sky recalled passages from Les Miserables, threadbare and gray. View quote
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I sense that novel of my dreams is in the Remington SL3 - although it writes much faster than I can spell. View quote
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Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. View quote
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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously. View quote
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A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus. View quote
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If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down. (Tom Robbins)
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning. View quote
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To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt. View quote
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A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me? View quote
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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. View quote
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The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' View quote
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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. View quote
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The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. View quote
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My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy. View quote
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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. View quote
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The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. (Tom Robbins)
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. View quote
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I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. View quote
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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. View quote
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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. View quote
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