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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3d7b0ac | THE MINUTE YOU LAND IN NEW ORLEANS, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get the aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off. | Tom Robbins | ||
| eebcf14 | They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 46af579 | I love myself," he said. "But it's unrequited." | Tom Robbins | ||
| da49292 | that no matter how valid, how vital, one's belief system might be, one undermines that system and ultimately negates it when one gets rigid and dogmatic in one's adherence to it. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e2fcb33 | Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8741a88 | Wasn't there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn't she be glad, grateful for this intrusion of the unexpected and unexplained? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3b5c2e7 | It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9aa1749 | As long as there are fuses, no walls are safe. As long as every wall is threatened, the world can happen. Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ba29403 | this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 85b6478 | I like to drink just enough to change the temperature in the brain room. I'll turn to less mainstream substances if I want to rearrange the furniture. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3843450 | That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us. | inspire | Tom Robbins | |
| ca9be36 | To the domesticated, nomads were an unwelcome reminder of instinct suppressed, liberty compromised, and control unimplemented. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0dd942a | a sudden squawked command caused everyone within earshot to act for a split second as if they were shaking invisible martinis | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9ec046c | Since, on a socio-economic level, there are myriad wrongs that need to be righted, a major problem for the species seems to be how to assist the unfortunate, throttle the corrupt, preserve the biosphere, and effectively organize for socio-economic alteration wihtout the organization being taken over by dullards, the people who, ironically, are best suited to serving organized causes since they seldom have anything more imaginative to do and.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b0ae65d | Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 43ad86b | Size is important, no matter what our apologist sisters say. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 751aaac | The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit in which it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 62ebe1f | Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish," I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2eacaa6 | In a voice that sounds the way a can of cheap dog food would sound if a can of cheap dog food could speak, he tells you you are looking well. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5a17143 | The stiff-witted and academic seem not to comprehend that it is entirely possible to be ironic and sincere at the same instant, that a knowing tongue in cheek does not necessarily preclude an affectionate glow in heart. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8bb8546 | To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit; he knows one thing extremely well and is ignorant of almost everything else. | ignorance specialization | Tom Robbins | |
| 512da6a | Belli ki birisi piramitleri akilda bulundurmamizi istemis cunku piramit sembolu duzenli olarak elledigimiz ya da gozlemledigimiz seylerde dikkat cekici bir bicimde yer aliyor. Herhangi bir gun icinde piyasada iki milyardan fazla bir dolarlik banknot dolasir. Yuzyilin buyuk bir bolumunde Amerika Birlesik Devletleri'nde icilen sigaralarin yarisi Camel idi, yani yilda asagi yukari otuz milyar. Piramitlerin modern cagin en populer iki nesnesini.. | still-life-with-woodpecker tom-robbins | Tom Robbins | |
| a7dfaf8 | In school you learn that it is the thumb that separates human beings from the lower primates. The thumb is an evolutionary triumph. Because of his thumbs, man can use tools; because he can use tools he can extend his senses, control his environment and increase in sophistication and power. The thumb is the cornerstone of civilization! | Tom Robbins | ||
| 38ede63 | I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9fc8265 | What I love most about Jerusalem is that it's not about money." "Pardon?" "New York here is a city about money. L.A.'s about money. Las Vegas is about money. Dallas the same. Tokyo and London, Milan, Zurich, Singapore, the whole reason for them is money. Tel Aviv's about money. But Jerusalem, it's not about money." "He is absolutely right," put in Abu. "Jerusalem is about . . . something else." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0cf5bab | It's more important to be free than to be happy. | happiness | Tom Robbins | |
| 511610e | I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation, my run was often silent and empty; there were no increments, no arbitrary graduations reducing time to functional units. I abstracted and purified. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 70a28a2 | Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bca9842 | The hippopotamus is a vegetarian but ferociously territorial (you might find that true of certain vegans you know), and will flip a raft or bite it in half: once one is in the water, the crocodiles show up like a bunch of starving hobos descending on a boxcar full of fried chicken. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6f0299c | But the most insidious and dangerous of false religions is secular humanism. It's so crafty, so sneaky, with its kindness and its decency, that only Satan hisself could've come up with it. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 509b90b | The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee. | Tom Robbins | ||
| f55b8b6 | and while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 6bc8886 | Politics is the science of domination, and persons in the process of enlargement and illumination are notoriously difficult to control. Therefore, to protect its vested interests, politics usurped religion a very long time ago. Kings bought off priests with land and adornments. Together, they drained the shady ponds and replaced them with fish tanks. The walls of the tanks were constructed of ignorance and superstition, held together with f.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c28997c | People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. | Tom Robbins | ||
| da6a423 | Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 73254f9 | Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all, | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5ec0c65 | Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2cdef02 | Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b101940 | I don't think I've ever felt more disoriented and alone. Or more thoroughly, serenely, at home. Every true romantic will know what I mean. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5f3cc01 | In a patriarchal society, the abiding sexuality of the healthy female was obliged to wear a prim disguise. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 94a9a83 | Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made? | Tom Robbins | ||
| f96cef9 | Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4612d45 | The French say that the best part of an affair is going up the stairs. | Tom Robbins | ||
| dcd6f9a | The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim. | Tom Robbins |