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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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• If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

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  Interesting, Might, Next

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.20, Bantam

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• Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

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  Growing Up, Nice, Mean

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

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• There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

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  Faces, Sticks, Sometimes

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.69, Bantam

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• That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

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  Organization, Creative, Brain

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• You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

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  Always Trying, World, Said

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• He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

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  Faces, Defeated, Executioners

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.153, Bantam

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• Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

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  Evil, Revolver, Standards

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.349, Bantam

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• Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

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  Spiritual, Responsibility, Intellectual

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.163, Bantam

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• There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

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  Character, Moon, Insanity

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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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• 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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• 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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• His voice wore no pants.

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  Voice, Pants

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.230, 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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• 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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• Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

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  February, Cloaks, Shoulders

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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 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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• All dreams continue in the beyond.

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  Dream

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

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• You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn’t last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind.” That’s how it is with dreams,” said Priscilla. “They’re the perfect crime.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Real

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• There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

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  Comfort, Thrill, Violence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.86, 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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• 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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