Tom Robbins citations (250 citations, Page 6)

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

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Tom Robbins

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

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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.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

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

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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.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“His voice wore no pants.”

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Tom Robbins

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

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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.”

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Tom Robbins livre 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”

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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.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“I'll bet I'm as old as you are."
"I'm older than Sanskrit."
"Well, I was waitress at the Last Supper."
"I'm so old I remember when McDonald's had only sold a hundred burgers."
"You win.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none called The Moon) and is devoted to the inessential.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“It is more important to be free than to be happy.”

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“As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.”

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Tom Robbins

“And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Source: Skinny Legs and All

“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“They'd be no threat to me. I have a black belt in Haiku. And a black vest in the cleaners.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“I’m acquainted with a, uh, gentleman who claims that the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired in mediocrity. Whereas, if we would aim the bulk of our support at the brightest, most talented, most virtuous instead, then they would have the wherewithal to solve a lot of our problems, to uplift the whole culture, enlighten it or something, so that eventually there wouldn’t be so many losers and weaklings impeding evolution and dragging the whole species down. He claims that martyrs like you just perpetuate human misery by catering to it. He believes individuals have to take responsibility for their own lives and accept the consequences of their choices.”

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Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

“The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“There's no such thing as security in this life, sweetheart; and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes that she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show.”

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Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

“Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“Bernard Mickey Wrangle had developed a psychological test of his own. It was short, simple, and infallible. To administer the test, merely ask the subject to name his or her favorite Beatle. If you are at all familiar with the distinct separate public images of the four Beatles, then you'll recognize that the one chosen reveals as much about the subject's personality as most of us will ever hope to know.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“… overdramatizing the word of God, turning the Scriptures into a cross between a German opera and a hockey game.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“On the campus of Outlaw College, professors of essential insanities would characterize the conflicting attitudes of Nina Jablonski and Leigh-Cheri as indicative of a general conflict between social idealism and romanticism. As any of the learned professors would explain, plied with sufficient tequila, no matter how fervently a romantic might support a movement, he or she eventually must withdraw from active participation in that movement because the group ethic — the supremacy of the organization over the individual — is an affront to intimacy. Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars with which this life is sweetened. It is absolutely vital to the essential insanities.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“All Uncle Larry is saying is that individuals have to accept responsibility for their own bad choices. If every time we choose a turd, society, at great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. Maybe it boils down to the premium we want to place on liberty.”

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Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

“Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“They snuggled closer, and when they were as close as they could get without being behind one another, they commenced to kiss again.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

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