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" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "
Tom Robbins
Friends
Just
Good
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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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" 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. "
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" If little else, the brain is an educational toy. "
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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. "
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" Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" A writer needs a life of introspection. "
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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. "
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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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Nothing
Things
" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "
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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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" I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know. "
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You
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" True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "
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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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" 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. "
Tom Robbins
Morning
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Looking
" When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle. "
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Bottle
Just
" Writing is the hardest physical work there is. "
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Physical
" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. "
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Soul
Business
" Most novelists write about twisted lives. "
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About
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" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "
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Got
Authority
Order
" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "
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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. "
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" The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. "
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" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "
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" Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. "
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" Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. "
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" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "
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