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• The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

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  Morning, Fear, Pregnancy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.21, Bantam

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

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  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• 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 that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

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  Skills, Way, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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• Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

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  Love, Wedding, Laughter

  Biography/Mini Bio, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is dope, not chicken soup.

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  Dope, Love Is, Soup

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.160, Bantam

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• Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

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  Problem, Cop, Crime

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.28, Bantam

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• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

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  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

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  Success, Success Failure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

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• All dreams continue in the beyond.

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  Dream

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.54, Bantam

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• Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

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  Mean, Men, Different

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.184, Bantam

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• Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

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  Blessing, Imagination, Preparation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.101, Bantam

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• The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

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  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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  Party, Anxiety, Agitation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.49, Bantam

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• Life is hard if you think it's hard.

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  Thinking, Life Is Hard, Ifs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.85, Bantam

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• When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

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  Animal, Men, Psychics

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam

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• She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

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  Water, Tears, Velocity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.6, Bantam

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• The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

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  Science, Honest, Scientist

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.166, Bantam

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• As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

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  Humorous, Phones, Machines

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• Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.

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  Funny, Money, Rich

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.253, Bantam

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• But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure.

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  Beach, Wine, Successful

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• But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

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  Thinking, Play, Making Love

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.109, Bantam

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• Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

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  Plato, Oedipus, Claims

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• Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

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  Sausage, Silent, Repose

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• Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

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  February, Cloaks, Shoulders

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• Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

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  Writing, Bed, Would Be

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