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“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.”
― Tom Robbins

“Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“Would you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.”
― Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
― Tom Robbins

“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”
― Tom Robbins, Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such and the latter breeds (assumed) facts. The husbandryman uses his skills to enrich the future, the historian uses his to enrich the past. Both are usually up to their ankles in bullshit.”
― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction

“Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Summer had come to sit on New York's face.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“Leave it to a naive world-saver like you to view our love as a Sacred Cause when in actual fact all it was was some barking at the moon.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“The full moon - the mandala of the sky.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate”
― Tom Robbins

“What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“For them not to have fucked then and there would have required such a reversal of the laws of nature as to cause Newton to spin in his coffin and NASA to discontinue the space program.”
― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

“Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance.”
― Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that one could improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self. For the unconscionable, political reactivism was seductive because it seemed to protect one's holdings and legitimize one's greed. But both sides were gazing through a kerchief of illusion.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“White folks have controlled New Orleans with money and guns, black folks have controlled it with magic and music, and although there has been a steady undercurrent of mutual admiration, an intermingling of cultures unheard of in any other American city, South or North; although there has prevailed a most joyous and fascinating interface, black anger and white fear has persisted, providing the ongoing, ostensibly integrated fete champetre with volatile and sometimes violent idiosyncrasies.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a shack or a cave and lets his beard grow, people will flock from miles around just to read his "no trespassing" sign”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.”
― Tom Robbins

“To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy.”
― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction