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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. (Tom Robbins)
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. View quote
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A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. View quote
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I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. View quote
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors. View quote
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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. View quote
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To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. View quote
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When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. View quote
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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. View quote
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Most novelists write about twisted lives. View quote
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At the typewriter you find out who you are. (Tom Robbins)
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. View quote
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I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' View quote
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. View quote
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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. View quote
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. View quote
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There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. View quote
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. View quote
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. View quote
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. View quote
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When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act. (Tom Robbins)
The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker than Amanda's twat is Carolina barbecue. View quote
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If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around. View quote
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They'd be no threat to me. I have a black belt in Haiku. And a black vest in the cleaners. View quote
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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. View quote
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