There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees… — 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
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
In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The word desire suggests that there is something we do not have. If we have everything already, then there can be no… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone… — 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
The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower 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
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points… — 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
A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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