Quote

You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing.

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
Thing
Good
Think
Thinking
Schoolgirl
Ignorant
Civilization

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
A thing is good because it is good, not because it is natural. A thing is bad because it is bad, not because its artificial. It is not a damn iota better to be bitten by a rattlesnake than shot by a gun.
Tom Robbins
Image
Maybe what I admired most about John Steinbeck is that he never mortgaged his 45-acre heart for a suite in an ivory tower.
Tom Robbins
Image
Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in freedom and takes obligation out of the mix. It's the word upon which adventure, exhilaration, and authenticity depend. It's the word that the cocoon whispers to the caterpillar.
Tom Robbins
Image
The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.
Tom Robbins
Image
Jackson Pollock said once, I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive. He said, That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive.
Tom Robbins
Image
A child's mind is its living room it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
To achieve the impossible it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
Tom Robbins
Image
Reality whistles a different tune underwater.
Tom Robbins
Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
Tom Robbins
Image
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)
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
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
Tom Robbins
Image
Peeple of zee wurl, relax
Tom Robbins
Image
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.
Tom Robbins
Image
Live the beauty or your own reality.
Tom Robbins