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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 15

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I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be

I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.

Doubt, Way, Wonderful

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.243, Bantam

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Life, God, Prayer

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.117, Bantam

His voice wore no pants.

Voice, Pants

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.230, Bantam

Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.

Love You, Making Love, Brooklyn

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.111, Bantam

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Legacy, Arithmetic, Valuable

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.481, Bantam

Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.

Writing, Bed, Would Be

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Plato, Oedipus, Claims

What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.

Heart, Unexpected, Still Life With Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.31, Bantam

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Soul, Brain, Divine

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

Dreamily the Princess stood up. "I'm not sure if I can walk," she said. "Then I'll carry you." "Is that what love is?" "I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

Stupid, Princess, Love Is

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

Ethics, Moral, Calm

There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.

Kings, Flower, Warrior

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

Cake, Language

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.207, Bantam

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

Taught Us, Leader, Doe

One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.

Perception, Looks, World

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.

Sick, Today, Wells

Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land.

Land, Joy, Soul

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

Self, People, Giving

"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

Demand, Financial, Offensive

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.201, Bantam

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Book, Novelists, Remember

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

Morning, Couple, Sleep

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.40, Bantam

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

Time, Legs, Firsts

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.208, Bantam

There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.

Philosophy, Educational, Two

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.4, Bantam

Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire and theft. They are mistaken.

Fear, Believe, Fire

Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.

Truth, Blue, Balls

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