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

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  God, Humorous, Phones

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

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• You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

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  Taught Us, Leader, Doe

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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?

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  God, Prayer, Humorous

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

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• Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

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  Life Changing, Passion, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.147, Bantam

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• Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

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  Life, God, Prayer

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.117, Bantam

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• His voice wore no pants.

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  Voice, Pants

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

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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.

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  Civilization, Long, Neurosis

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

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• The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

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  Legacy, Arithmetic, Valuable

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.481, Bantam

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• I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.

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  Doubt, Way, Wonderful

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.243, Bantam

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• Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.

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  Sausage, Silent, Repose

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• He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.

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  Faces, Defeated, Executioners

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.153, Bantam

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• A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

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  Gun, Natural, Shots

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.239, Bantam

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• A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

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  Wings, Spirit, Soar

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.377, Bantam

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• Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

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  What Matters, Survival, Important

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.371, Bantam

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• The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

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  Art, Useful Things, Art Is

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• Eighty percent of love is smell.

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  Love Is, Smell, Eighty

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• My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

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  Wall, Writing, Opposites

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• Most novelists write about twisted lives.

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  Writing, Novelists, Twisted

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• John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

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  Lasts, Factories, Said

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• If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

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  Book, Novelists, Remember

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• I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

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  Beach, Book, People

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• I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

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  Thinking, Disease, Aging

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• A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

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  Writing, Novel, Ready

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• People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

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  Writing, People, Imagination

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• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

  "Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

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