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Tom Robbins Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we’ve forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That’s why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: Poets, Dreams, Artists, Writers
“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.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: Introvert
“My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: Love, Unconditional Love, Freedom
“Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.”
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Tagged: Drinking, Beer, Satisfaction, Comfort
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
— Tom Robbins, The Perfect Love
Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
— Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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“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.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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“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.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“the naked parrot looked like a human fetus spliced onto a kosher chicken.”
— Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
Tagged: first lines of books
“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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“If this typewriter can’t do it, then f*** it, it can’t be done.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Tagged: first lines of books
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
— Tom Robbins, Still Life With A Woodpecker
Tagged: Life, Truth About Life, Life's Questions, Limitations, Happiness
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