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Tom Robbins Inspirational Quotes (285)

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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?
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Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.
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Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.
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I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
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To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
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Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which afford us the greatest privacy
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The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
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I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
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Christians, and some Jews, claim we're in the end times, but they've been saying this off and on for more than two thousand years.
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A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
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Cant you understand that romanticism is no more an enemy of science than mysticism is? In fact, romanticism and science are good for each other. The scientist keeps the romantic honest and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
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The only question is how to make love stay.
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But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.
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A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death
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The truth, from my perspective, is that the world, indeed, is ending - and is also being reborn. It's been doing that all day, every day, forever.
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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.
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In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.
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Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
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There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.
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Though February lay about her shoulders like a cloak of lead.
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Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
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