Still Life With Woodpecker Quotes - Page 2

• It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

  Tom Robbins

  Earth, Woodpeckers, Columbus

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

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

  Tom Robbins

  Libertarian Party, Libertarian, Outlaw

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

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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, Form

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

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• A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  May, Way, Embrace

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Failure, Thinking

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.

  Bruce Barton

  Failure, Grace, Style

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• Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Proof, Theologian, Nevertheless

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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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• A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.

  Tom Robbins

  Wall, Simple, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.241, Bantam

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• Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Soul, Hawaii

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.40, Bantam

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• A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

  Tom Robbins

  Sense Of Humor, Perfume, Superiors

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

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

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• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappy Person, Unhappiness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, 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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• People are never perfect, but love can be.

  Tom Robbins

  People, Perfect, Perfect Lover

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

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• There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.

  Seth Green

  Sunshine, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• If you want to change the world, change yourself.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Change, World, Want

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• If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.

  Charlie Peacock

  Beautiful, World, Want

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• If you want to change the world, start with yourself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Want, Celebration Of Life

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• If you want to change the world, change it through the market

  Paul Gilding

  World, Want, Inspirations Being Yourself

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• If you want to change the world, help the women.

  Nelson Mandela

  World, Want, Helping

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• Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

  Tom Robbins

  Half, Awake, Minimalism

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

  RuPaul

  Doe, World, Want

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