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One Quotes by Tom Robbins
- There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- 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…
- You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.
- One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things…
- There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume.…
- Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our…
- You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
- There's probably no subject with quite so many conflictin' opinions about it as there are about food, and 'tis better to swap bubble gum with…
- Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and…
- Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses.
- Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. If there's any one word -- if you had to pick one word to describe the nature of the…
- If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses.…
- If one yearns to see the face of the Divine, one must break out of the aquarium, escape the fish farm, to go swim up…
- Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist…
- To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These…
- But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What…
- Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich.
- There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether…
- But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle