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Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.


Tom Robbins

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TOM ROBBINS The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only ...
TOM ROBBINS When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results...
TOM ROBBINS To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
TOM ROBBINS The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
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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