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Tom Robbins Quote: “You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it’s living in Paris in the ’30s.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “In school you learn that it is the thumb that separates human beings from the lower primates. The thumb is an evolutionary triumph. Because of his thumbs, man can use tools; because he can use tools he can extend his senses, control his environment and increase in sophistication and power. The thumb is the cornerstone of civilization!”
Tom Robbins Quote: “What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?” My answer: “Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “It is more important to be free than to be happy.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I don’t want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Was it wife soup and husband soup on the Other Side? Or was it simply soup?”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Plants and animals are even more comfortable with death. It is the natural end. But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Don’t you see? The enemy represents Death to ‘em. The government propaganda mills paint the enemy as an unfeelin’, devourin’ monster. So, when we go to war we go on a noble mission, a life-affirming mission, whose object is the destruction o’ death. And ‘tis precisely because we hate death so much that we’re too crazed and irrational to see the irony in it. We hate death so bloody much that we will kill – and die – in order to try to halt its march.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “We are seldom as limited as we think we are.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I don’t think I’ve ever felt more disoriented and alone. Or more thoroughly, serenely, at home. Every true romantic will know what I mean.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they’re sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they’re scrambled.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “The Middle Ages hangs over history’s belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Jerusalem was where it all went down, man. It was connected to heaven like Spanish Harlem was connected to Puerto Rico.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Since the Goddess always has been honored in sacred groves, it is understandable that patriarchs, then as now, leaned toward deforestation.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Wasn’t it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?”
Tom Robbins Quote: “This darling Marvelous has eaten at many tables and has not been nourished.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “There was a purity about him, a blaze in his eyes, that bordered on the charismatic. I also had the sense that hanging out with him would be dangerous: not because he might prove mean, violent, dishonest, or crazier than anybody else I knew, but because he seemed both completely uncompromised and completely uncompromising. As Henry Miller said of Rimbaud, he was “like a man who discovered electricity but knew absolutely nothing about insulation.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “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.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Now I’d fallen into it like a drunk hobo falling into a vat of champagne.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom. On.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Indeed, the first step toward becoming a true outlaw is the refusal to be victimized.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on them arrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Oh, Marx,′ Amanda sighed. ‘You’re so melodramatic. So what if it’s this way or that way? When I was in convent school I used to stare out the windows at the clouds. I used to chase butterflies in the Mother Superior’s flower patch. Those clouds and those butterflies, they didn’t know secular from religious – and they didn’t care.’ ‘I’m neither a cloud nor a butterlfy,’ I snapped. ‘We’re all the same as clouds and butterflies. We just pretend to be something different.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “My grandmother,” he said, “confessed to me once that before she’d ever let herself become deeply involved with a man, she’d make sure to get him drunk. Maestra claims you can never know who a person really is unless you’ve seen how they behave when under the spell of Bacchus. It’s a hard and fast rule with no exceptions: a bad drunk will make a bad husband. Or wife, for that matter. Sobriety for some people, is a thin and temporary disguise.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Summer had come to sit on New York’s face.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “One of the other musicians said that the tambourine is a female due to the fact that it makes a pretty jingle and is designed to be spanked. That is the more recent, patriarchal attitude, I suppose.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “I have never ever Googled myself, in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Granny and me alone on Judgment Day and wonder if there is some wider meaning there, some cryptic message from a hidden dimension, from the Other, from the Over Self. Or if it was simply that heaven didn’t want us and hell was afraid we’d take over.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Above all, have a good time. If you aren’t enjoying writing it, you can hardly expect someone else to enjoy reading it.”
Tom Robbins Quote: “Life still begins in the womb, cocky erections still collapse and lie useless when woman’s superior sexuality is finished with them, but men control the divine channels now, and while that control may be largely an illusion, their laws, institutions, and elaborate weaponry exist primarily to maintain it.”
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