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Tom Robbins Inspirational Quotes (285)

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Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?
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The beet is the most intense of vegetables
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Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
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To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
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The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.
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Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
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I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
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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.
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what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!
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I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
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Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the universe -- I think that word would be paradox. That's true at the subatomic level, right through sociological, psychological, philosophical levels on up to cosmic levels.
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Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
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If you were Jesus with missing years to kill where would you go?
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red hair is caused by sugar and lust.
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When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
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salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
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I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.
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Minds were made for blowing.
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I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
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I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.
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Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
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Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.
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