Snippets I've Enjoyed

While rummaging through an old journal, I found the following quotes which I transcribed from Tom Robbins' book, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, during the summer of 2000. Enjoy.
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The pumpkin is a faceless head, its true identity know only to the Halloween knife and certain deputies of the pie police.
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Domesticity shrinks the soul of a beast.
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People of zee wurl, relax.
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Her eyes were like chocolate-dipped cherry bombs with their fuses lit.
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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None of us is much more than a pimple on the ass-end of creation, so let's not get carried away with ourselves....Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it.
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The sun rapidly resumed wilting them with its nuclear halitosis.
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In a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all.
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Extinction is a consequence of overspecialization.
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They awoke the next morning wound in the rusty anchor chains of hangover.
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No one would ever blast a hole in the magic tutu of her childhood.
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No artist worthy of the name gave a flying fuck whether or not any special interest group--miniscule or multitudinous, benign or malicious--took offense of their heartfelt creations.
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The people who get to name things have psychological ownership of those things.
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The universe is organized anarchy.
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I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room.
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I adore Tom Robbins. I actually got to see him in New Mexico during the tour for Villa Incognito. He read an excerpt and during one of his pregnant pauses, I couldn't restrain myself and shouted "I love you Tom!" He looked right at me (at least I think he did--he was wearing dark sunglasses) and said "I love you too, baby."

I nearly died.