It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpecker people way When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpecker libertarian-party libertarian To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese. Tom Robbins laughter ignorance rain She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. Tom Robbins phones humorous god You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has he placed you? Tom Robbins humorous prayer god America is a nation of 270 million people: 100 million of them are gangsters, another 100 million are hustlers, 50 million are complete lunatics, and every single one of us is secretly in show business. Isn't that fabulous? Tom Robbins humorous funny america 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 gun cities fear Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters. Tom Robbins wedding laughter love When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come. Tom Robbins halfway forests animal We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us. Tom Robbins dream morning night When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned. When a man tries to own an individual, whether that individual be another man, an animal or even a tree, he suffers the psychic consequences of an unnatural act. Tom Robbins psychics animal men The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear. Tom Robbins fear morning pregnancy The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human. Tom Robbins scientist honest science You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well Tom Robbins sick inspiration people Well, there's one thing to be said for money. It can make you rich. Tom Robbins rich money funny When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. Tom Robbins swans killing art Success can eliminate as many options as failure. Tom Robbins success-failure success Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened! Tom Robbins intimacy sugar life-is If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. Tom Robbins finding-yourself iron two It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.It weepsfor the black people who think like white people.It weepsfor the Indians who think like settlers.It weepsfor the children who think like adults.It weepsfor the free who think like prisoners.Most of all, it weepsfor the cowgirls who think like cowboys. Tom Robbins cowboy children thinking
