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Tom Robbins Quotes
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Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn’t fixity the hallmark of the living dead? (Tom Robbins Quotes)
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces (Tom Robbins Quotes)
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Violence stinks no matter which side of it you’re on. But now and then there’s nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it’s a costly mistake to spread it too thin (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets (Tom Robbins Quotes)
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring? (Tom Robbins Quotes)
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice (Tom Robbins Quotes)
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being (Tom Robbins Quotes)
To be or not to be isn’t the question. The question is how to prolong being (Tom Robbins Quotes)
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed (Tom Robbins Quotes)
We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves (Tom Robbins Quotes)
A child’s mind is its living room; it’s is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence (Tom Robbins Quotes)
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe (Tom Robbins Quotes)
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don’t know how to write sentences (Tom Robbins Quotes)
I am cheerful. I don’t know if I’m happy. There is a difference, you know (Tom Robbins Quotes)
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Our world isn’t made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language (Tom Robbins Quotes)
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven (Tom Robbins Quotes)
We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth (Tom Robbins Quotes)
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival (Tom Robbins Quotes)
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don’t have that luxury (Tom Robbins Quotes)
The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don’t do a lot of reading anymore except on tape (Tom Robbins Quotes)
The trickster’s function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom (Tom Robbins Quotes)
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness (Tom Robbins Quotes)