In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
First I think I was interested in the stories, and later on, I became more interested in the language itself, so the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when wishing apparently no longer… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Wasn’t there a surplus in life of the boring, the repetitive, the mediocre, and the tame? Shouldn’t she be glad, grateful for… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“A lot of life boils down to the question of whether a person is going to be able to realize his fantasies,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in life is style. That is the style of one s existence the characteristic mode of one s… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“You see, at that juncture in my life I wasn’t evolved enough to understand the fluid nature of romantic love (its indifference… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If a person leads an ‘active’ life, as Wiggs had, if a person has goals, ideals, a cause to fight for, then… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Bones are patient. Bones never tire nor do they run away. When you come upon a man who has been dead many… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free. And the world is round round round.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Long as you’re not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
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… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“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… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks… — Tom Robbins Copy Share
When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. — Tom Robbins Copy Share
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