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Book: Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
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  1. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    And did I lose my faith in raffles about the same time and for approximately the same reasons that I quit believing that virgins can have babies; or that if I slay only those people the government encourages me to slay, I'll be allowed to spend all of eternity in some vaguely located puffyland sipping milk and honey with a huzzahing throng of cheery nonthinkers?
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    the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.
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  3. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    Romantic love is ambulatory by nature, and it must be anchored in strata more stable than lust if it's to last. Marital disintegration is accelerated when only one, or neither, party is grounded and growing, or growing at different rates or in different directions. As I became increasingly interested in cultural matters, matters of the mind and spirit, my teenage bride waxed more and more materialistic.
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  4. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.
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  5. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.
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  6. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    It's been said that golf is a Zen activity. I'd argue that if golfers were practicing Zen, they wouldn't keep score.
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  7. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    the concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.
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  8. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
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  9. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    Now I'd fallen into it like a drunk hobo falling into a vat of champagne.
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  10. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.
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  11. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    Had Ken Kesey opened Electric Kool-Aid stands on every college campus in the country, it would have made a lesser contribution than Life to the creation of that era of unprecedented foment we like to call "the sixties.
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  12. Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True

    What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.
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