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Best One Quotes by Tom Robbins
- The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of…
- What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny…
- There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will…
- Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.
- Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if…
- Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether…
- Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is…
- Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter,…
- This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself…
- Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is…
- You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked…
- The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.
- Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
- Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal…
- Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.
- The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could…
- Faites de beaux rêves, monsieur," she called as she put out the light. Switters had always loved that expression, "Make fine dreams." In contrast to…
- To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die.…
- In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.
- Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New…
- The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters…
- One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it…
- The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater…
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre…
- The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle