Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 7

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• Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!

  Tom Robbins

  Sugar, Life Is, Intimacy

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• The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

  Tom Robbins

  Movement, Sometimes, Trouble

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• The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

  Tom Robbins

  Mind, Enemy, Dull

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• Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

  Tom Robbins

  School, Magic, Sorcery

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

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• Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

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  Love, Life, Abet

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

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• The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Kissing, Hug

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.206, Bantam

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• It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

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  Sexy, Peaceful, Lizards

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.280, Bantam

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• This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

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  Long, Water, Annoying

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.12, Bantam

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• We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking

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• Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require escape from the pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society.

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  Book, Ignorance, Eye

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.86, Bantam

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• If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

  Tom Robbins

  Kissing, Men, Animal

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.285, Bantam

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• In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

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  Wall, Writing, Clouds

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• The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

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  Valentine, Lucky, Causes

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Desperate, Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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• 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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• This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

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  Rooms

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.8, Bantam

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• The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

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  People, Giving, Want

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• If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

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  God, Thinking, Fjords

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.195, Bantam

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• I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

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  Believe, Sacred, I Believe

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.379, Bantam

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• There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

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  Country, Home, Journey

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.194, Bantam

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• Early religions were like muddy ponds with lots of foliage. Concealed there, the fish of the soul could splash and feed. Eventually, however, religions became aquariums. Then hatcheries. From farm fingerling to frozen fish stick is a short swim.

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  Aquariums, Swim, Soul

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.194, Bantam

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• Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

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  Writing, Adventure, Journey

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• Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

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  Order, Turkeys, Why Not

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.139, Bantam

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• You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

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  Morning, New Orleans, Sun

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Results, Stability

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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