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" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "
Tom Robbins
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" The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. "
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" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. "
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" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "
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" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "
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" A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence. "
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" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "
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" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "
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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.' "
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" I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me. "
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" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "
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" In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. "
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" To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. "
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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. "
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" The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. "
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" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "
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" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "
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" I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. "
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" I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. "
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" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "
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" People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. "
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" I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. "
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" A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans. "
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" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "
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" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "
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" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "
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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. "
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