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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

“Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims.”

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Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)

“The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.”

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Tom Robbins

"The Green Man : Tom Robbins" interviewed by Gregory Daurer, in High Times (12 June 2002).
High Times interview (2002)

“A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism — as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glow-worms or raccoons — Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake. Now, since those are the features that define a human being, it follows that the extent to which someone is lacking in those qualities is the extent to which he or she is less than human. Capisce?”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.”

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Tom Robbins livre Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.”

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Tom Robbins livre Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Wild Ducks Flying Backward (2005)

“A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?”

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Tom Robbins livre Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.”

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Tom Robbins

Appears in the book The Syntax of Sorcery (2012).

“The Devil doesn't make us do anything.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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."
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

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