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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 19

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All dreams continue in the beyond.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Dream

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.54, Bantam

Life is hard if you think it's hard.

Thinking, Life Is Hard, Ifs

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.85, Bantam

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Party, Anxiety, Agitation

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.49, Bantam

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

Life Changing, Passion, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.147, Bantam

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.

Fall, People, Spices

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.19, Bantam

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

Water, Tears, Velocity

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.6, Bantam

Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.

February, Cloaks, Shoulders

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

Humorous, Phones, Machines

You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you?

God, Prayer, Humorous

Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.48, Random House

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.

Philosophy, Educational, Moon

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

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Civilization, Long, Neurosis

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a "discovery.

Ocean, Book, Blue

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.254, Bantam

She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

God, Humorous, Phones

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

Funny, Humorous, Japan

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Children, Mind, Rooms

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Sharks, Sea, Dolphins

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

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

Writing, Bottles, Geese

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Men, Mold, Barns

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.75, Bantam

The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.

Men, Things In Life, What Matters

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.13, Bantam

There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven.

Stories, Seven, Existence

"Novelist Tom Robbins Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 5, 2010.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

Typewriters, Looks, Still Life With Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.10, Bantam

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Art, Swans, Killing

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.167, Bantam

Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.

Water, Soul, Hawaii

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

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Our World, Air, Water

The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

Ends, Ideology, Ultimate

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