American - Author | July 22, 1936 -
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
Tom Robbins
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
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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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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 think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
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The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
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The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
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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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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
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To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
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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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