Tom Robbins quotes - page 7

On the campus of Outlaw College, professors of essential insanities would characterize the conflicting attitudes of Nina Jablonski and Leigh-Cheri as indicative of a general conflict between social idealism and romanticism. As any of the learned professors would explain, plied with sufficient tequila, no matter how fervently a romantic might support a movement, he or she eventually must withdraw from active participation in that movement because the group ethic - the supremacy of the organization over the individual - is an affront to intimacy. Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars with which this life is sweetened. It is absolutely vital to the essential insanities. (Tom Robbins)

All Uncle Larry is saying is that individuals have to accept responsibility for their own bad choices. If every time we choose a turd, society, at great expense, simply allows us to redeem it for a pepperoni, then not only will we never learn to make smart choices, we will also surrender the freedom to choose, because a choice without consequences is no choice at all. Maybe it boils down to the premium we want to place on liberty.

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They snuggled closer, and when they were as close as they could get without being behind one another, they commenced to kiss again.

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The shaman lives outside the social system, refusing to have any part of it. Yet he seems to connect the populace to the heavens and the earth far more directly than the priest.

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She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.

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She lunched on papaya poo poo or mango mu mu or some other fruity foo foo bursting with overripe tropical vowels.

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This baby (the Remington SL3 typewriter) speaks electric Shakespeare at the slightest provocation and will rap out a page and a half if you just look at it hard.

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In this room, the salamander was squashed between the pages of the rhyming dictionary, thereby changing poetry forever. Here, Salome walked around with a big red fish held high up over her head. Old Father spanked her with a ballet slipper, sending her to bed without milk or honey. Dance was changed in this room, too.

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They were old enough to know better. Some of them were old enough to remember when old Macdonald had a farm.

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Midnight, when the monotonous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign.

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Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart. (Tom Robbins)

It is so amusing the way that mortals misunderstand the shape, or shapes, of time. ... In the realms of the ultimate, each person must figure out things for themselves. ... Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

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Good luck to you, pal. That's a search these days.

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Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

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So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.

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In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow.

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Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

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It couldn't have been Pan's output alone because Alobar's testicles were as flat and juiceless as trampled grapes.

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This stuff's so fine Julius Caesar called for it with his dying breath. 'A toot, Brutus,' is what he said.

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Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard God who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!

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A rabbi's dog could score pork chops in the streets of Tel Aviv easier than Bernard could acquire tequila in King County Jail. (Tom Robbins)

Water! Of all liquids on Earth, the only one chosen for scrubbin' and flushin'. The liquid they rinse baby's nappies in, the fluid that floods the gutters o' this cloud-squeezer town; a single drop o' water discolors a glass of Irish, and you, false friend, are wantin' me to pour this abrasive substance into me defenseless body!

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Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

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The man and woman firmly shook hands. The solution to the overpopulation problem might rest in such handshakes.

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Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic.

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Tom Robbins

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Occupation: American Author
Born: July 22, 1932
Died: February 9, 2025
Quotes count: 282
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