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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 5

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Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.

Kissing, Oysters, Mermaid

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Lying, Eye, May

Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

You are what you think you eat.

Thinking, Hamburgers

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

Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.

New Orleans, Two, Lilies

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.141, Bantam

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

Civilization, Neurosis, Normality

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

Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

Fate, Adequate, Matter

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.

Years, Cities, Two

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.13, Bantam

Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss.

Kissing, Men, Animal

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.167, Bantam

Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right

Pages, Rhythm, Ifs

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

Light, Soul, Dollars

As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve.

Beautiful, Sacrifice, People

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.93, Bantam

There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

People, Way, Still Life With Woodpecker

Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.306, Random House

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

Consistent, Inconsistent, Courses

"Even Cowgirls Get The Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

Attitude, Opposites, People

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

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.

Essence, Doe, Moments

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.196, Bantam

Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

Reading, Opportunity, Desire

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.10, Bantam

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Spiritual, Food, Circles

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

Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

Self, People, Laughing

Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.154, Bantam

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Running, Soul, Mediocrity

Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.174, Random House

Each time we exhale, the world ends; when we inhale, there can be, if we allow it, rebirth and spiritual renewal. It all transpires inside of us. In our consciousness, in our hearts. All the time.

Spiritual, Heart, World

"The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Music, Sweet, Pain

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

Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn

Way

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.104, Bantam

What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

Buddhist, Real, Typewriters

"The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf.

Golf, Play, Differences

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

Frying Pans, Matter, Violence

"Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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