Still Life With Woodpecker Quotes - Page 3

• If you want to change the world, be that change.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Volunteer, World, Want

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• Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.

  Tom Robbins

  Outlaw, Supermarkets

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.62, Bantam

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• There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Way, Victim

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.306, Random House

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• In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

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• There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential.

  Tom Robbins

  Insanity, Essentials, May

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.73, Bantam

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• There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Moving, Good Luck, Evil

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Bible, Christ Consciousness, Bread Of Life

  N. Scott Momaday, Al Momaday (1969). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.7, UNM Press

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• People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)

  Tom Robbins

  Sacrifice, People, Efficiency

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• Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

  Tom Robbins

  Love You, Making Love, Brooklyn

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.111, Bantam

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• Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.

  Tom Robbins

  Choices, World, Offers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

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• There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

  Tom Robbins

  Typewriters, Looks, Tricks

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.10, Bantam

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• There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.

  Dave Barry

  Inspiring, Sunshine, Two

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• Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

  Tom Robbins

  Life, God, Prayer

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.117, Bantam

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• The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?

  Tom Robbins

  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

  Tom Robbins

  Time, Legs, Firsts

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.208, Bantam

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