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Letter "T" » Tom Robbins Quotes
«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.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Humanity
| Keywords:
advanced, cautious, immature, playful, rebellious, sober
«I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.»
«The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
a people, bottom, bottom line, creating, mediocre, one and only, The Bottom, the bottom line, The One and Only, transformed, vile
«Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
beef, beefing, beeves, cut of beef, describe, roast, roasting, roast beef, screwdriver, screwdrivers
«The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
«Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it»
«Who knows how to make love stay?Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.»
«When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.»
«When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.»
«Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.»
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