Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99) — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really… — 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
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing… — 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
