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You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.

Tom Robbins

Inspiration, Anxiety, Magic

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

Tom Robbins

Men, Giving, Magic

Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.7, Bantam

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Tom Robbins

Cutting, Magic, Beef

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally. The word "grammar," like its sister word "glamour," is actually derived from an old Scottish word that meant "sorcery." When we were made to diagram sentences in high school, we were unwittingly being instructed in syntax sorcery, in wizardry. We were all enrolled at Hogwarts. Who knew?

Tom Robbins

School, Magic, Sorcery

"The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 2012.

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

Tom Robbins

Artist, Magic, Missions

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Tom Robbins

Mean, Blue, Magic

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Tom Robbins

Magic, Deception

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

Certain individual words do possess more pitch, more radiance, more shazam! than others, but it's the way words are juxtaposed with other words in a phrase or sentence that can create magic. Perhaps literally.

Tom Robbins

Magic, Phrases, Radiance

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