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• There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

  Tom Robbins

  Two, Yuck, Still Life With Woodpecker

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• Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.

  Tom Robbins

  Religious, Truth, Ambition

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.210, Bantam

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• When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Fall, Hard Work

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• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Government

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

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• Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspiration, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.21, Bantam

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• Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Morning, Stars

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 2003.

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• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Understanding, Being Weird

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.11, Bantam

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• When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Libertarian Party, Libertarian, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.61, Bantam

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• Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.

  Tom Robbins

  Beautiful, Stars, Passion

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• Why procrastinate when you can precognitate?

  Tom Robbins

  Procrastinating

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• Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

  Tom Robbins

  Good Times, Having A Good Time, Don't Trust

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• The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

  Tom Robbins

  Simplicity, Complexity

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.238, Bantam

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• Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

  Tom Robbins

  Caring, Knowing, Ecstasy

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• Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'

  Tom Robbins

  Mean

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• If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Peace, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.255, Bantam

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• All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.

  Tom Robbins

  Integrity, Imagination, Focus

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.241, Bantam

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• Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Choices, Cocoons

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• People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

  Tom Robbins

  Hurt, People, Ems

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• The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions - anger, jealousy, etc - to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago.

  Tom Robbins

  Prayer, Knowing, Long Ago

  "Skinny Legs and All". Book by Tom Robbins, 1990.

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• We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Hero, Healing

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

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• Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

  Tom Robbins

  Archives, Instinct, Captives

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam

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• Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

  Tom Robbins

  Unique, Equality, Different

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

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• Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Rap, Sound

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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• Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

  Tom Robbins

  Stars, Doe, Folly

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.243, Bantam

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