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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 17

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I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Thinking, Disease, Aging

A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.

Writing, Novel, Ready

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Writing, People, Imagination

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

People, Life And Change, Make Things Happen

"Here in Geoduck Junction" by Tom Robbins, archive.seattleweekly.com. October 9, 2006.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Reality, Contradictory, Paradoxical

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness.

Art, Useful Things, Art Is

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

What Matters, Survival, Important

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.371, Bantam

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

Kmart, People, Heaven

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.11, Bantam

The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.

Yoga, Effort, Drug

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Always Trying, World, Said

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Simple, Giving, Life Is

That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.

Organization, Creative, Brain

If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?

Jesus, Years, Missing

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.

Horse, Ice Cream, Looks

I sweet potato what I sweet potato.

Sweet, Potatoes, Sweet Potatoes

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

Decision, Compulsion, Barricades

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.

Gun, Natural, Shots

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.239, Bantam

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Wings, Spirit, Soar

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.377, Bantam

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Love, Unique, Function

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.161, Bantam

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

Lust, Sin, Seven

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.112, Bantam

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

Thinking, Want, Miserable

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act.

Animal, Men, Psychics

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.76, Bantam

A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from the beginning. A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes. A hamburger is companionable and faintly erotic. The nipple of the Goddess, the bountiful belly-ball of Eve. You are what you think you eat.

Mother, Spiritual, Thinking

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

Dream, Morning, Night

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.90, Bantam

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.

Heaven, Hell, Individual

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.143, Bantam

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