Quote

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar.

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
Light
Cigar
Soul
Dollar
Lights
Bills
Dollars
Hundred
Personal
Freedom

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
Tom Robbins
Image
Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
Tom Robbins
Image
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Tom Robbins
Image
I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum.
Tom Robbins
Image
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Tom Robbins
Image
Dreamily the Princess stood up. I'm not sure if I can walk, she said. Then I'll carry you. Is that what love is? I no longer know what love is. A week ago I had a lot of ideas. What love is and how to make it stay. Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.
Tom Robbins
Image
Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
Tom Robbins
Image
Madame Lily Devalier always asked Where are you? in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.
Tom Robbins
Image
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
Tom Robbins
Image
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
Tom Robbins
Image
And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.
Tom Robbins
Image
Eighty percent of love is smell.
Tom Robbins
Image
As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the call of nature will be answered by a machine.
Tom Robbins
Image
Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.
Tom Robbins