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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 14

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Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.

Distance, Perspective, Personality

The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

Reality, Water, Confusion

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

red hair is caused by sugar and lust.

Hair, Lust, Sugar

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.53, Bantam

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

Clouds, Dust, Perfect

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam

There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with a rabid bulldog than challenge a single one o' the varyin' beliefs your average human holds about nutrition.

Average, Challenges, Bulldogs

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.323, Bantam

Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.

Dream, Ocean, Men

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.62, Bantam

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Writing, Adventure, Journey

Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.

Sex, Children, Moon

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

Faces, Defeated, Executioners

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

The trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man. You don’t even want to communicate in a relationship. You think that if you open up to love, you’ll lose your independence or your self-expression or creativity or whatever you call all that passionate, wonderful stuff that makes you feel alive inside.

Art, Love You, Creativity

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.234, Bantam

One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

Violence, Rage, Craziness

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.225, Bantam

There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.

Wise, Whales, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.152, Bantam

People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Roots, People, Tree

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.94, Bantam

What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.

Lying, Hero, Differences

Don't confuse symmetry with balance.

Balance, Symmetry

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.

Morning, Smell, Absurdity

…he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Lost, Made, Shoulders

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.49, Bantam

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

Eye, Sacrifice, Silence

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.

Rawness, Disorder, Plasma

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Dream, Art, Games

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.235, Bantam

Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Shells, Taught, Naive

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.68, Bantam

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

Thinking, Civilization, Ignorant

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.25, Bantam

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Evil, Revolver, Standards

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.349, Bantam

Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

Spiritual, Responsibility, Intellectual

Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.163, Bantam

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

Character, Moon, Insanity

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