Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 11

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• I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle--even though it cannot be solved--is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

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  Rain, Believe, Quality

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• I'll bet I'm as old as you are." "I'm older than Sanskrit." "Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper." "I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers." "You win.

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  Winning, Mcdonalds, Burgers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.65, Bantam

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• They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

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  Morning, Couple, Sleep

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.40, Bantam

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• From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

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  Horse, Ice Cream, Looks

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• Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

  Tom Robbins

  Kmart, People, Heaven

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.11, Bantam

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

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  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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• Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

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  Sharks, Sea, Dolphins

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Humorous, Phones

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

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• And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

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  Eye, Sacrifice, Silence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

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• What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

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  Heart, Unexpected, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.31, Bantam

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• If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

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  Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

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• This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

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  Jezebel, Glitter, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.9, Bantam

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• What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

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  Lying, Hero, Differences

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

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  Time, Legs, Firsts

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

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• Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

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  Land, Joy, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

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  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive.

  Tom Robbins

  Weather, Tea, Quality

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.145, Bantam

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• The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

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  Black, Necklaces, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.370, Bantam

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• Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.

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  Sex, Children, Moon

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• It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks.

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  Rain, Autumn, Wind

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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.

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  Love You, Making Love, Brooklyn

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

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• I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

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  Believe, People, Secret

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• The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion.

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  Breakup, Passion, Eye

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

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• Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

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  Writing, Next, Madness

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• Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.

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  Sexy, Mean, Cynical

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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