Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free."
Still Life With Woodpecker quotes
Still Life With Woodpecker
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Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"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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"Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice."
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"Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life."
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"People are never perfect, but love can be."
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"Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding."
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"A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised."
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"There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act."
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"People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)"
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"What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart."
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