Tom Robbins Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Lunch, Dancing

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

• It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Age, Enlightenment

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

• I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, School, Home

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