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Tom Robbins Quotes
Birthday: | July 22, 1932 |
Educated At: | Virginia Commonwealth University |
Nationality: | American, United States Of America |
Occupations: | Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Writer, Journalist |
Total quotes: 23
Tom Robbins
BirthnameBirthday: July 22, 1932
Educated At: Virginia Commonwealth University
Nationality: American, United States Of America
Occupations: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Writer, Journalist
Total quotes: 23
“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”
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Introvert
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
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Relationships, Self-Esteem
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
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Tom Robbins
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
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Tom Robbins
“Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”
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Tom Robbins
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
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Philosophy, Love
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
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Tom Robbins
“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”
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Tom Robbins
“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”
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Tom Robbins
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
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Tom Robbins
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.”
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Tom Robbins
“When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.”
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Tom Robbins
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