Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 14

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• I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

  Tom Robbins

  Journey, Men, East

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

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• The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters build their houses out of their lives, one could imagine the same of New Orleans, whose houses were similarly and resolutely shuttered against an outside world that could never be trusted to show proper sensitivity toward the oozing delicacies within.

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  Beautiful, Animal, New Orleans

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• The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

  Tom Robbins

  Morning, Fear, Pregnancy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.21, Bantam

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

  Tom Robbins

  Hair, Lust, Sugar

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.53, Bantam

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• He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

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  Clouds, Dust, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam

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• You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

  Tom Robbins

  God, Prayer, Humorous

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

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• But do we know how to make love stay?' I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Play, Making Love

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.109, Bantam

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• Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

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  Summer, New York, Faces

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.366, Bantam

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• More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.

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  Soul, Waxing, Mystery

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• But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Long, Neurosis

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

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• Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

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  Dream, Ocean, Men

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

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• A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

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• His voice wore no pants.

  Tom Robbins

  Voice, Pants

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.230, Bantam

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• She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Humorous, Phones

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

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• The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

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  Funny, Humorous, Japan

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• When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

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  Art, Swans, Killing

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.167, Bantam

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• The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

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  Black, Necklaces, Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.370, Bantam

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• Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

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  Plato, Oedipus, Claims

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• 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

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• As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

  Tom Robbins

  Humorous, Phones, Machines

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• All dreams continue in the beyond.

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  Dream

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.54, Bantam

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• There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.

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  Comfort, Thrill, Violence

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.86, Bantam

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• The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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  Party, Anxiety, Agitation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.49, Bantam

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• On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

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  Fall, People, Spices

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

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