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From Quotes by Tom Robbins
- When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on…
- There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.
- Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe…
- The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the…
- We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is…
- Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes…
- Rivers are the primal highways of life. From the crack of time, they had borne men's dreams, and in their lovely rush to elsewhere, fed…
- I removed the freeway from its temporal context. Overpasses, cloverleafs, exit ramps took on the personality of Mayan ruins for me. Without destination, without cessation,…
- A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from…
- Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we…
- Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially…
- From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels…
- Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before…
- We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
- A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder'…
- 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…
- What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership…
- Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.
- Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
- Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
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- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt