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Tom Robbins Inspirational Quotes (285)

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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
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Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.
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Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon.
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Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
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Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
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I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had done a great deal of reading. I suppose I was more at home in Greenwich Village than, say, any of classmates from Warsaw High School. But in any case, it was an overwhelming experience for me. It took me some time to begin to assimilate it.
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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
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Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
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The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of their resources that, in a sense, everything we experience is a reduction. We employ drugs, yoga techniques and poetics - and a thousand more clumsy methods - in an effort just to bring things back up to normal.
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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
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When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
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At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms our world is made of language.
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You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.
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The gods have chosen to entertain me with chronic eyestrain headaches. Very poisonous episodes. So I don't do a lot of reading anymore except on tape.
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.
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Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
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Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.
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We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.
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