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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 20

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In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but

In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded.

Virginia, Ideas, Might

The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.

Reading, Tape, Headache

When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself.

Summer, Lazy, Kind

"READING LIST: Beach Books That Don't Suck". www.esquire.com. June 1, 2006.

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Black, Necklaces, Rooms

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.370, Bantam

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Halloween, Giving, Scary

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.418, Bantam

How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another's personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

Memorable, Personality, Understanding

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.23, Bantam

Summer had come to sit on New York's face.

Summer, New York, Faces

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.366, Bantam

The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance.

Skills, Way, May

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.137, Bantam

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Magic, Deception

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.21, Bantam

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Faces, Sticks, Sometimes

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.69, Bantam

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

Jezebel, Glitter, Rooms

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.9, Bantam

Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Growing Up, Nice, Mean

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.254, Bantam

If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

Interesting, Might, Next

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.20, Bantam

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.

Reading, School, Home

The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

Witty, Strong, Real

My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the goofy genius of Taoist masters than it is to, say, the satirical gibes on Saturday Night Live. It has both a literary and a metaphysical function.

Crazy, Night, Genius

"The Green Man : Tom Robbins". Interview with Gregory Daurer, in High Times, June 12, 2002.

Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.

Writing, Long, Fiction

"Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

Book, Names, Want

"Oral history interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Martha Kingsbury, www.aaa.si.edu. March 3, 1984.

I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.

Giving, Toasters, Want

The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.

Race, Gone, Stories

First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the stories became almost secondary, but it was kind of a background music for my life.

Thinking, Stories, Firsts

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

Writing, Ink, Paper

I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don't know how it's going to end.

Book, Mean, Ideas

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first sentence, it leads to the right second sentence and three years later you have a 500-page manuscript, but it really is like going on a trip, going on a journey. It's a voyage.

Book, Writing, Journey

I think when I'm 80 years old, 85, hopefully, I'll be pushed around in a wheelchair by a red-headed nurse with panty outline. She'll make me little tequila sunrises and I'll read my complete works then. Then, I'll decide whether I think I've done something good or not. I'll reserve my judgment until then.

Thinking, Years, Nurse

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