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Tom Robbins Inspirational Quotes (285)

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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.
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In East of Eden, John Steinbeck wrote that there's never been a great creative collaboration. When the Beatles first burst on the scene, I thought they were proving him wrong. Later, we learned that Lennon and McCartney had each composed their pop masterpieces separately, individually. So it goes.
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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.
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Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.
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Magic things are fond of deceptions.
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On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
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The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.
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Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating.
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One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.
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All dreams continue in the beyond.
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Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
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Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
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We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
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Our similarities bring us to a common ground Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.
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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
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A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.
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I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction.
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America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous?
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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
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You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
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The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy.
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