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If he's like a lot of men, he'd rather be a murderer than a fool. — Tom Robbins

Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid. — Tom Robbins

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws. — Tom Robbins

Can I drink more than one mai tai without taking on the aroma of an aroused butterly? — Tom Robbins

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef. — Tom Robbins

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. — Tom Robbins

People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. — Tom Robbins

This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter — Tom Robbins

A sense of humor ... is superior to any religion so far devised. — Tom Robbins

Yet, when struck at a particular angle by a flicker of candlelight from the chandelier, its heart of wine-drenched velvet shone through. — Tom Robbins

There are two lost continents ... We are one: the lovers. — Tom Robbins

Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous. — Tom Robbins

In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail. — Tom Robbins

The notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment — Tom Robbins

Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich. — Tom Robbins

My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it? — Tom Robbins

I'd like to think that had I known the truth, I might have been a kinder, more loving person. If only we knew the Truth, mightn't we all? — Tom Robbins

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. — Tom Robbins

Can a woman who does not know the contents of her handbag know the contents of her heart? — Tom Robbins

The purpose of art is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. — Tom Robbins

Logic only gives a man what he needs ... Magic gives him what he wants. — Tom Robbins

The international situation is desperate, as usual. — Tom Robbins

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon. — Tom Robbins

The will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity. — Tom Robbins

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving. — Tom Robbins

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — Tom Robbins

What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. — Tom Robbins

Time, in his view, was a short, sloppy path from Eve's crayon box to the Messiah's fire box. — Tom Robbins

I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. — Tom Robbins

Morels are ugly in the skillet. The caps look like the scrotums of leprechauns, the stems like the tusks of fetal elephants. — Tom Robbins

That's the value of the artist ... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us. — Tom Robbins

Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. — Tom Robbins

Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins

Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of "is" and "it. — Tom Robbins

To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now. — Tom Robbins

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will. — Tom Robbins

cream of banana soup — Tom Robbins

John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' — Tom Robbins

It's no wonder people lack romance in their lives, love belongs to those who are willing to go to extremes for it. — Tom Robbins

There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender. — Tom Robbins

There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness. — Tom Robbins

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

Love is dope, not chicken soup. — Tom Robbins

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. — Tom Robbins

They've built their nests in the chimneys of my heart: those swallows that you lost. — Tom Robbins

...if we aren't learning something from a new experience, it's usually because we aren't paying attention. Or we're following the wrong libretto. — Tom Robbins

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. — Tom Robbins

Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone. — Tom Robbins

Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire. — Tom Robbins

Far out, Bobby wrote back. Next thing I know, you'll be knitting socks with Whistler's Mother. — Tom Robbins

I like travelers, but I don't like tourists. The difference is that travelers don't shop and they don't play golf. — Tom Robbins

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.' — Tom Robbins

Nonetheless, the fiery dreams did fade, and inside rooms made of clay and painted blue, sweeter visions were nourished. — Tom Robbins

red hair is caused by sugar and lust. — Tom Robbins

If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination. — Tom Robbins

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. — Tom Robbins

All dreams continue in the beyond. — 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 it day by day. — Tom Robbins

Their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon. — Tom Robbins

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins

AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES, our shadows grow longer. At night, in the dark, we become our shadows. — Tom Robbins

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses. — Tom Robbins

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. — Tom Robbins

Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. — Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection. — Tom Robbins

It's good to bear in mind that like it or not, enlightenment has always been, even in a golden age, pretty much limited to an elite. — Tom Robbins

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will. — Tom Robbins

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus. — Tom Robbins

The most useful thing about art is it's uselessness. — Tom Robbins

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. — Tom Robbins

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free. — Tom Robbins

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. — Tom Robbins

Our similarities bring us to a common ground;
Our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other. — Tom Robbins

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

They caressed one another until their hides shone. They embraced until their 206 bones squeaked like mice. Their bed was a boat in a weird sea. — Tom Robbins

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up. — Tom Robbins

Only the young and the beautiful should be allowed to fuck. — Tom Robbins

It's personal freedom, not hundred dollar bills that lights the soul's cigar. — Tom Robbins

In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one. — Tom Robbins

Now I'd fallen into it like a drunk hobo falling into a vat of champagne. — Tom Robbins

Oh, I thought that this day and age you maybe would be known as bovine custodial officers. — Tom Robbins

We do know that she's compassionate and eccentric - an excellent combination in a human being; — Tom Robbins

Ellen Cherry understood then that religion was an improper response to the Divine. — Tom Robbins

Your petal from the salty rose — Tom Robbins

Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace. — Tom Robbins

I am what I it. It is what is is. — Tom Robbins

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

Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or. — Tom Robbins

Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more. — Tom Robbins

It is more important to be free than to be happy. — Tom Robbins

Some families ran their own little version of the Middle East. — Tom Robbins

Perhaps sound carries farther across time than across space. — Tom Robbins

Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud — Tom Robbins

At the typewriter you find out who you are. — Tom Robbins

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. — Tom Robbins

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you. — Tom Robbins

Spring has a way of erasing doubt. — Tom Robbins