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Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins (born July 22, 1932) is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"), often wildly poetic stories with a strong social and philosophical undercurrent, an irreverent bent, and scenes extrapolated from carefully researched bizarre facts. His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.

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What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Differences, Hero, Lie, Lying, Mostly, Words

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 a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

Giving, News, People, Self, Time, Unjust

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Love, Unique, Function, Irreplacable, Loved

To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace.

Capacity, Diversity, Grace, Poetry, World

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Criminals, Dolphins, Sea, Sharks

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Avenue, Brooklyn, Cheesecake, Love You, Making Love, Stays

To an artist a metaphor is as real as a dollar.

Artist, Dollar, Dollars, Metaphor, Real

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.

Floor, Grade, Large, Office, School, Senior

Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

Aquariums, Frozen, Ponds, Soul, Swim

There are two lost continents. . . . We are one: the lovers.

Continents, Educational, Lost, Lovers, Philosophy, Two

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Circle, Circles, Food, Hamburger, Spiritual

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

Depression, Drama, Dysfunction, Example, Hands, Simply

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

Grace, Humor, Lying, Self Esteem, Way

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

30S, Feelings, Life, Paris, Thinking, Thinks

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Buy, Fall, Falling In Love, Ideas, Love, Love Life

It was autumn, the springtime of death.

Autumn, Death, Springtime

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

Heaven, Hell, Hopes, Individual, Living

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Dirty, Harm, Possess, Water, Waters, Wisdom

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you. " "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

Clue, Love Is, Princess, Said, Stood, Stupid

Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Eliminate, Failure, Options, Success, Success Failure

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