Tom Robbins Quotes

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Tom Robbins

Profession : Author

Birth : July 22, 1936

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

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The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

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Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

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Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.

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I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

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People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

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Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

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We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

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Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

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To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

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I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

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The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.

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Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

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The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

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In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

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