American - Author | July 22, 1936 -
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
Tom Robbins
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
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Writing is the hardest physical work there is.
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I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.
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I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
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