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Them Quotes by Tom Robbins
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- 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…
- 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…
- What I’ve learned along the way is that existence is cosmic theatre, but paradoxically, we should play our roles to the absolute best of our…
- 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…
- America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until…
- My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why taking them too seriously,…
- Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others,…
- The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.…
- Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance…
- I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two,…
- How we shape our understanding of others' lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by…
- Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
- People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside they resent those…
- Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a…
- Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Feelings are the one of the most important cause behind the weakness or strength of a person. Be strong utilise them as… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare