Quote

I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.

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
Anything
Writing
Life
Sentences
Interested
Probably
Else

More quotes by Tom Robbins

Image
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.
Tom Robbins
Image
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.
Tom Robbins
Image
It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.
Tom Robbins
Image
As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.
Tom Robbins
Image
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
Tom Robbins
Image
Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.
Tom Robbins
Image
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.
Tom Robbins
Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.
Tom Robbins
Image
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.
Tom Robbins
Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Tom Robbins
Image
This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper.
Tom Robbins
Image
Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
Tom Robbins
Image
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
Tom Robbins
Image
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
Tom Robbins
Image
Eighty percent of love is smell.
Tom Robbins
Image
I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
Tom Robbins
Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.
Tom Robbins
Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Tom Robbins
Image
Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark
Tom Robbins
Image
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.
Tom Robbins