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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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Tom Robbins: Citations en anglais

“Minds were made for blowing.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“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

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”

Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Source: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“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)

“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“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 livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Contexte: "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 livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“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

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

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

Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

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

Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

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

Tom Robbins livre Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

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

Tom Robbins livre Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

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