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Very Quotes by Tom Robbins
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than…
- Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and…
- The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence…
- My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
- 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…
- What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership…
- The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying…
- Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong