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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

~Tom Robbins

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I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends.

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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

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Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

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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 brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

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

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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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Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 22nd, 1936

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