Tom Robbins Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Marriage, Time

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

• This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam

• If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when you think you are mastering them - it is nonetheless perpetually fascinating, frequently surprising, occasionally rewarding, and it comes already assembled. [...] Alas! the brain is a toy that plays games of its own. Its very most favorite game is the one-thing-leads-to-another game.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Thinking

• There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Two

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

• 'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Ironic

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.18, Bantam

• Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Moon

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

• When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Theatre, Culture

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

• A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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