“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
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Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All, novelist Tom Robbins' fifth book, was published in 1990 by Bantam Books. As with all of Robbins' novels, it weaves disparate and seemingly unrelated themes into a single narrative.
“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
Variant: To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Source: Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Context: ... she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."
