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" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "
Tom Robbins
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" The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism. "
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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. "
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" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "
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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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" 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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" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "
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" Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. "
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" Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently. "
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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 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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" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "
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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. "
Tom Robbins
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" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. "
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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. "
Tom Robbins
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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. "
Tom Robbins
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You
Life
" We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. "
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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. "
Tom Robbins
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" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "
Tom Robbins
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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. "
Tom Robbins
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" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "
Tom Robbins
Science
Think
Aging
" If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. "
Tom Robbins
Where
Book
Remembering
" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "
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People
Create
End
" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "
Tom Robbins
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" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. "
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" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "
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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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