Quote

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Tom Robbins

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
Author
Autobiographer
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Blowing Rock
North Carolina
Thomas Eugene Robbins
Beats
Doesn
Paradox
Complexity
Beat

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.
Tom Robbins
Image
The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.
Tom Robbins
Image
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
Tom Robbins
Image
It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.
Tom Robbins
Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Tom Robbins
Image
Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
Magic things are fond of deceptions.
Tom Robbins
Image
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.
Tom Robbins
Image
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.
Tom Robbins
Image
Western civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
Tom Robbins
Image
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
Tom Robbins
Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed our wanderlust, mimicked our arteries, and charmed our imaginations in a way the static pond or vast and savage ocean never could.
Tom Robbins
Image
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
Tom Robbins
Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.
Tom Robbins
Image
The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.
Tom Robbins
Image
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
Tom Robbins
Image
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
Tom Robbins
Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins