Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 9

• One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Doors, Intellectual

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• According to Hindu cosmology, we're in the kali yuga, a dark period when the cow of history is balanced precariously on one leg, soon to topple. Then there are our new-age friends who believe that this December we're in for a global cage-rattling which, once the dust has settled, will usher in a great spiritual awakening. Most of this apocalyptic noise appears to be just wishful thinking on the part of people who find life too messy and uncertain for comfort, let alone for serenity and mirth.

  Tom Robbins

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  "La sintaxis de la brujería". Entrevista con Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 6 de junio de 2012.

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• In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Authority, Respectable

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.281, Bantam

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• Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.

  Tom Robbins

  Bebé

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, Bantam

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• Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.

  Tom Robbins

  Sweet, Keys, Water

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• Nunca tengas miedo de amar, ni siquiera cuando exista la posibilidad de no recibir amor a cambio.

  Tom Robbins

  Return, Chance, Afraid To Love

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• Live the beauty or your own reality.

  Tom Robbins

  Realidad

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• The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.

  Tom Robbins

  Eye, Balls, Tricks

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.487, Bantam

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• 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 in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.

  Tom Robbins

  Real, Artist, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.206, Bantam

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• True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Organization, Waiting

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.222, Bantam

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• Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

  Tom Robbins

  Purpose, States, Evolve

  Tom Robbins (2006). "Wild Ducks Flying Backward", p.210, Bantam

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• Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

  Tom Robbins

  Dream, Ambition, Talking

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• Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going.

  Tom Robbins

  Animal, Race, Purpose

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", p. 186, Bantam.

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• Sobre todo, diviértete. Si no disfrutas escribiéndolo, difícilmente puedes esperar que otros disfruten leyéndolo.

  Tom Robbins

  Reading, Writing, Good Times

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• 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 nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.

  Tom Robbins

  Writing, Novelists, Fiction

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• I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us, to temp us, to make it the more difficult for us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.

  Tom Robbins

  Moda, Creer, Hombres

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• El enemigo es todo experto que practique la manipulación tecnocrática, el enemigo es todo partidario de la estandarización y el enemigo es toda víctima que sea tan torpe y perezosa y débil como para dejarse manipular y estandarizar.

  Tom Robbins

  Practice, Lazy, Enemy

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• The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Doe, Bags

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.117, Bantam

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• Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.

  Tom Robbins

  Fifty, Cups, Clock

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• Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

  Tom Robbins

  Angel, Dancing, Philosopher

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Perfume de Jitterbug", p.411, Bantam

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• …not a fighter… an adventurer. He doesn’t attack, he engages; He doesn’t defend, he expands; He doesn’t destroy, he transforms; He doesn’t reject, he explores; ….

  Tom Robbins

  Fighter, Adventurer, Rejects

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• Los que rehúyen el capricho de las cosas experimentarán el rigor mortis antes de morir.

  Tom Robbins

  Inspiring, Rigor Mortis, Whimsy

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.91, Bantam

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• I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth.

  Tom Robbins

  Echoes, People, Three

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• 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 adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.

  Tom Robbins

  Suicide, Adventure, Differences

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.112, Bantam

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• 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 structures, and they're scared to death of that stuff because they know it controls them and restricts their movements.

  Tom Robbins

  Space, People, Movement

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.22, Bantam

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