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“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Variant: To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Source: Skinny Legs and All (1990)

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

Tom Robbins book Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passionthe woods.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”

Tom Robbins book Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.”

Tom Robbins

“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.”

Tom Robbins book Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“His voice wore no pants.”

Tom Robbins

“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.”

Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All