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Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.


Tom Robbins

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TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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