Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 11

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• The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.

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  Philosophical, Home, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Art, Theatre, Culture

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

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• In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.

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  Eden, Creative Collaboration, East

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• At the typewriter you find out who you are.

  Tom Robbins

  Typewriters, Who You Are

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• Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.

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  Judgement, Judgement Day, Has Beens

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• In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.

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  Long, Soul, Lines

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• Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats.

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  Views, Punishment, Rewards

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.192, Bantam

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• What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.

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  Evil, Mind, Trying

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• Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

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  Trying, Puff, Life Is

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.230, Bantam

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• Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

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  Thinking, Paris, Feelings

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• O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

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  Water, Confusion, Sorcery

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.48, Bantam

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• I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

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  Writing, Novelists, Neurosis

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.31, Bantam

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• Love is the ultimate outlaw.

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  Love Is, Outlaw, Ultimate

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

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• The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

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  Color, Sky, Pajamas

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• Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

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  Funny, Life, Birth

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.33, Bantam

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• Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.

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  Boots, Wipe, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.

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  Girl, Odds, Two

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• If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

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  Educational, Brain, Littles

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.130, Bantam

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• It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.

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  Ambitious, World, Bible Verse

  "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

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• Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again.

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  Art, Wall, Land

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• I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.

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  Mother, Writing, Years

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• In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

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  Love, Passion, Holy Grail

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture.

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  Collective Unconscious, Historical, Fiction

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• You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

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  White, House, Genius

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.70, Bantam

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• The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.

  Tom Robbins

  Want, Advertising

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.160, Bantam

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