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I'm descended from a long line of preachers and policemen. Now, it's common knowledge that cops are congenital liars, and evangelists spend their lives telling fantastic tales in such a way as to convince otherwise rational people that they're factual. So, I guess I come by my narrative inclinations naturally. Moreover, I grew up in the rural South, where, although television has been steadily destroying it, there has always existed a love of colorful verbiage.
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... to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.
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It couldn't have been Pan's output alone because Alobar's testicles were as flat and juiceless as trampled grapes.
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
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The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.
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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.
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I'm acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society'll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn't be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices.
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I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.
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It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful...
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It's a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with in a dark alley.
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There are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
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Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.
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In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too.
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Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come. However, since Seafood Kabob is likely to win the Belmont Stakes before a psychic jailbreak of that magnitude materializes, my strategy is to try to live as if that day were already here.
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.
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Love is something to be passed around freely, not spooned down someone's throat for their own good by a Jewish grandmother who cooked it all by herself.
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Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
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Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.
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There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky is sensed, is seen, although in such settings the sky is invariably immense. There is a place between the cerebrum and the stars where sky stops and space commenses, and should we find ourselves on a particular prairie or mountaintop at a particular hour [...] our relationship with sky thins and loosens while our connection with space becomes as solid as bone.
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The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
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Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
July 22, 1932
(age 91)
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Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins is an American author.
Known for:
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
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