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Way Quotes by Tom Robbins
- Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way. Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things which…
- A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way…
- 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…
- 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…
- The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor.…
- The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence…
- So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense…
- That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to…
- I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they…
- In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and…
- 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,…
- It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;…
- 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 trouble with you is that the only way you can communicate is through art. You’ve never learned to communicate your feelings to a man.…
- If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist…
- Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are…
- Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace -…
- Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn
- 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…
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