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Tom Robbins Quotes

Tom Robbins quotes

American Author, Writer July 22, 1936

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As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o’ defeatin’ death, but neither o’ them do a blinkin’ thing but sanction dyin’. Throughout history, Death’s best friend has been a priest with a knife. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all..."
Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on..."
To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living...."
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to..."
The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "The function of the artist is to provide what life does not."
The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins quote: "The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you..."
The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball. Tom Robbins
In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled. Tom Robbins
To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox? Tom Robbins
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace. Tom Robbins
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa,... Tom Robbins
I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners, through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, over carpets, down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children and heros; perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted and clarified. Tom Robbins
I don't think that a novel is supposed to be a guide book to happiness any more than it's supposed to be a journal of one's personal pain and frustration, which most novels are today, unfortunately. I think the novels that are most important are those that are more on the order of those coyotes that howl on the hills outside of town. Something mysterious and wild and hypnotic. Tom Robbins
The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives quite nicely. As legend has it, the camel carries its own water, stores it in its stupid hump. If individuals, like camels, perfect their inner resources, if we have the power within us, then we can cross any wasteland in relative comfort and survive in arid surroundings without relying on the external. Often, moreover, it is our "hump" - that aspect of our... Tom Robbins
There are smiles that actually travel along telephone wires, although no engineer at Bell Laboratories could explain how it works. Tom Robbins

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