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Growing up is a trap. 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.

—Tom Robbins

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What limits people is that they don’t have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

—Tom Robbins

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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.

—Tom Robbins

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Despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.

—Tom Robbins

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We’re making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

—Tom Robbins

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It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg.

—Tom Robbins

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“You’re better equipped for this world than I am,” she said. “I’m always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

—Tom Robbins

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Don’t trust anybody who’d rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

—Tom Robbins

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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

—Tom Robbins

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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.

—Tom Robbins

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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.

—Tom Robbins

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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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