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Thomas Eugene Robbins, né le 22 juillet 1932 à Blowing Rock en Caroline du Nord, est un écrivain américain. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. juillet 1932  •  Autres noms تام رابینز, 湯姆·羅賓斯, トム・ロビンズ
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“Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.”

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Tom Robbins livre Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

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

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful…”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Contexte: If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

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

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.”

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Tom Robbins livre Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All (1990)

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”

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Tom Robbins livre Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

“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.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air — moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh — felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”

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Tom Robbins livre Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropiate port you find yourself docked.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”

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“Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.”

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