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Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 7

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Love, Life, Abet

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

Sexy, Peaceful, Lizards

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.280, Bantam

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Long, Water, Annoying

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.12, Bantam

We are seldom as limited as we think we are.

Thinking

Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require escape from the pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society.

Book, Ignorance, Eye

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.86, Bantam

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

Kissing, Men, Animal

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.285, Bantam

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Wall, Writing, Clouds

The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

Valentine, Lucky, Causes

Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

Desperate, Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker

"Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.

Writing, Thinking, Mind

This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.

Rooms

Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.8, Bantam

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

People, Giving, Want

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

Mean, Evil, Survival

If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up wild cataracts, dive in deep fjords. One must explore the labyrinth of the reef, the shadows of the lily pads. How limiting, how insulting to think of God as a benevolent warden, an absentee hatchery manager who imprisons us in the 'comfort' of artificial pools, where intermediaries sprinkle our restrictive waters with sanitized flakes of processed nutriment.

God, Thinking, Fjords

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

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

Believe, Sacred, I Believe

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.379, Bantam

There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.

Country, Home, Journey

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.194, Bantam

Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

Writing, Adventure, Journey

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

Artist, Magic, Missions

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Vegetables, Beets, Intense

Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.1, Bantam

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.

Morning, New Orleans, Sun

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.

Order, Results, Stability

Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

Thinking, Two, Romance

Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.

Animal, Forests, Halfway

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.371, Bantam

And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?

Thinking, Ideas, Mind

Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.264, Bantam

It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.

Mistake, It Is What It Is

Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.81, Bantam

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