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

—Tom Robbins

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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.

—Tom Robbins

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

—Tom Robbins

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

—Tom Robbins

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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.

—Tom Robbins

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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens — but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters.

—Tom Robbins

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You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one’s life. So you lose it, you go to your hero’s heaven and everything is milk and honey ’til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That’s not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one’s clichés.

—Tom Robbins

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You’ve heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It’d go like this: You’d get the boss on the line and say, “Listen, I’ve been sick ever since I started working here, but today I’m well and I won’t be in anymore.” Call in well.

—Tom Robbins

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There are only two mantras: yum and yuck. Mine is yum.

—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.

—Tom Robbins

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There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

—Christopher Morley in Where the Blue Begins

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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

—Natalie Wood

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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

—Garry Shandling

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There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

—Judith Martin

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We’re all more than the person we show to everyone else. At least I hope so. Because I feel like there’s more to me than that. I just haven’t had the chance yet to show it.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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