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“Minds were made for blowing.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”

Tom Robbins

“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Love is dope, not chicken soup.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

“Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

Tom Robbins

“The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.”

Tom Robbins B Is for Beer

Source: B Is for Beer

“Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Context: "This is the way to burn," the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. "Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn."

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)