Love is the ultimate outlaw. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated. Tom Robbins executioners defeated faces At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage. Tom Robbins dry land dream The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks. Tom Robbins hate believe people Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out. Tom Robbins puff life-is trying My desire was no less than before, you understand, but I no longer identified with the desire. Perhaps that is why 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 climate disappointment desire It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive. The fetus bailed out without a parachute. It landed in the sideline Astroturf, so upsetting the cheerleaders that for the remained of the afternoon their rahs were more like squeaks. Tom Robbins autumn rain wind I'm an outlaw, not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.' Bernard began to sing again. Timidly, Leigh-Cheri joined in. Between verses, they opened another bottle. The popping of its cork echoed throughout the great stone chamber. Of the three billion people on earth, only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri heard the popping of the cork and its echoes. Only Bernard and Leigh-Cheri passed out under the tablecloth. Tom Robbins echoes three people People are never perfect, but love can be. Tom Robbins still-life-with-woodpecker perfect people What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. Tom Robbins electric world jesus I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case. Tom Robbins doubt wonderful way This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins annoying water long Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue. Tom Robbins prayer god life The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything. While the rest of us are busy living - busy tasting and testing and hugging and kissing and goofing and growing - they are busy taking over. Tom Robbins hug kissing running If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. Tom Robbins honest running america His voice wore no pants. Tom Robbins pants voice Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure. Tom Robbins oedipus plato claims Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman. Tom Robbins bed would-be writing Consider the silent repose of the sausage as compared to the aggressiveness of bacon. Tom Robbins repose silent sausage As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. Tom Robbins sacrifice beautiful people Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. Tom Robbins artist reality people
