Adventure Quotes by Tom Robbins

14 Adventure quotes by Tom Robbins

Robbins mixes humor with the bizarre, turning every trek into a carnival of possibilities. This collection of fourteen quirky insights is perfect for those who love a little eccentricity in their wanderlust.

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My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

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There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are…

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Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

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Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

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“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and…

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Choice. It's the word that allows yes and the word that makes no possible. It's the word that puts the free in…

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“Hitchhiking is not a sport. It is not an art. It certainly isn't work, for it requires no particular ability not does…

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…not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t…

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Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair…

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The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the…

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Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending…

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As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will…

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Admittedly, having a bit of disposable cash in the bank can give you a sense of Buddhistic calm, and despite the fallacy…

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“According to Q-Jo, the whole tarot deck, or at least the twenty-two trump cards of the Major Arcana, may be read as…

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The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

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The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,…

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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

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“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

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A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

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“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and…

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Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical…

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“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.”

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She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its…

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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the…

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Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks…

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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.

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