Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 4

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• Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

  Tom Robbins

  Stars, Doe, Folly

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.243, Bantam

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• Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

  Tom Robbins

  Half, Still Life With Woodpecker, Awake

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

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• How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

  Tom Robbins

  Disappointment, Risk, Suffering

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• When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.

  Tom Robbins

  Wheelchairs, Young, Strollers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.129, Bantam

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• A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Food, Circles

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

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• It is more important to be free than to be happy.

  Tom Robbins

  Important

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.188, Bantam

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• Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though the light has dimmed and gone underground, something in me would like to think the sixties phenomenon was a dress rehearsal for a grander, wider leap in consciousness yet to come.

  Tom Robbins

  Marijuana, Thinking, Rights

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

  Tom Robbins

  Technological Development, Comfort, Bombs

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Rap, Sound

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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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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• If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspirational, Country, Names

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• Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Tomatoes, Sauce

  "(Revisiting) The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Minds were made for blowing.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Made

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• Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Romance

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

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• My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Life Is, Solitary

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.28, Bantam

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• Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

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  Cutting, Magic, Beef

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• Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.

  Tom Robbins

  Land, People, Waiting

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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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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

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

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• Cries for help are frequently inaudible.

  Tom Robbins

  Helping, Cry

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.311, Bantam

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• …not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….

  Tom Robbins

  Fighter, Adventurer, Rejects

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• Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

  Tom Robbins

  Real, Ideas, Pay

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• Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

  Tom Robbins

  Ideas, Personality, Grace

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

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