If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.

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About Tom Robbins

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Thomas Eugene Robbins (July 22, 1932 – February 9, 2025) was an American novelist. His most notable works are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy dramas"). His 1976 novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was adapted into the 1993 film version by Gus Van Sant. His last work, published in 2014,...

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Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

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Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is—and still not caring.

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

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To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

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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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If those in charge of our society—politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television—can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.

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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

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I used to feel like I was on the top of the world. Then one day, I noticed that it felt like I was no longer on the top of the world. I was just floating around inside of it. And then eventually, it felt like the world was on top of me.

—Colleen Hoover in Without Merit

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I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

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Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.

—Rachel Carson

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