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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
American Author
Born: Jul 22, 1936
Been Life Me People Writing You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. Tom Robbins
Love Time Looking Lover Waste Time Perfect Perfect Love Instead Creating Waste
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. Tom Robbins
Life Soul Light Liberate Our Evolution Spirit Adventure Greatest Brain Up Human Consciousness
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins
Government Business Soul Magic Disbelief Force Poor Believing
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. Tom Robbins
Heroes Own Our Ourselves Well Rescue Dragons
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe. Tom Robbins
Woman People Universe Secrets Those Circus Contains Always Tights Been Pink Romantic Who Believes
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. Tom Robbins
Freedom People Some Taboos Mischief Gives Sort Stir End Up Want Break In The End Create Really Function Things
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. Tom Robbins
Worth Few Nothing Living Worth Living Few Things Dying Many Things
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. Tom Robbins
Love Love Is Highest Makes Being Loved Loved One Unique Function
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. Tom Robbins
Humanity Immature Has-Been Responsible Advanced Because Been Cautious Sober Rebellious Playful
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes. Tom Robbins
Sometimes Trouble Horizontal Like Go Vertical Movement Lane Fast Fast Lane
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Tom Robbins
Love Love Is Rules Adhere Sign Outlaw Most Ultimate Accomplice Any Just Us
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce. Tom Robbins
Truth You Truth Is Training Dangerous Fear Guilt Young Kids Religious Scarcely Religious Right Brutal Schools Overlook Doing Educating Brains Commerce Wheels Being Children Even Right
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. Tom Robbins
Life You Quality Life Is A Believe Enough Though High Solved Divine Unsolvable Merge Contemplation Well Itself Cannot Transformative Riddle Even Zen
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. Tom Robbins
Impossible Achieve Thought Must Unthinkable Precisely
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. Tom Robbins
Respectable Respected Got Authority Order
I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. Tom Robbins
Science Think Demonstrate Cured Begun Disease Aging
I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. Tom Robbins
Good Good Friends Friends Infatuated Just
At the typewriter you find out who you are. Tom Robbins
You Typewriter Out Find Who
Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom. Tom Robbins
Service Freedom Pay Idea Most Real Real Freedom Handle Lip Lip Service American
A writer needs a life of introspection. Tom Robbins
Life Needs Introspection Writer
I eat so much mayonnaise they were going to send me to the Mayo Clinic. Tom Robbins
Me Eat Were Clinic Send Going Mayo Mayonnaise Much
When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. Tom Robbins
Life Summer Kind Ripe Poems Take Lazy Simultaneously Along Suppose Like Because Go Itself Shore Lush
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide. Tom Robbins
Religion Merely Masses Opium
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 imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.' Tom Robbins
You Creative Heart Writing Imagination Say Would One Thing About Mysterious Through Write Drives Emphasized Know Course Understood Any Wooden The One Thing Fiction Anything Automatically Process Stake Really Creating Creative Writing Thing Imagine
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language. Tom Robbins
World Water Language Made Atoms Our Air Earth Our World Molecules Even
There are stories still in existence that I wrote when I was five. However, I did not get published until I was seven. Tom Robbins
Seven Until Wrote Still However Existence Five Get Did Stories Published
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