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Tom Robbins Inspirational Quotes (285)

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It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.
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What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
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There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
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The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.
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When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
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Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by it.
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Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
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Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.
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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable force because to admit it is to admit that most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions, and financial ploys are not merely counter-productive but trivial.
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.
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Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
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I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.
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That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.
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A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.
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Live the beauty or your own reality.
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A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
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More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that.
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There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
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