Tom Robbins Quotes

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Tom Robbins

Profession : Author

Birth : July 22, 1936

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Tom Robbins

The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.

Tom Robbins

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

Tom Robbins

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.

Tom Robbins

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Tom Robbins

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Tom Robbins

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Tom Robbins

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

Tom Robbins

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Tom Robbins

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'

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To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Tom Robbins

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Tom Robbins

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

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Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Tom Robbins

I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic.

Tom Robbins

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

Tom Robbins

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

Tom Robbins