“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Quotes from workSkinny 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.
“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Variant: To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
“keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
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."
“A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
“Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
