Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes. Tom Robbins More Quotes by Tom Robbins More Quotes From Tom Robbins Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life. Tom Robbins love-life falling-in-love ideas In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail. Tom Robbins holy-grail passion love In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs. Tom Robbins technological-development bombs comfort Much more than an entertaining set of exaggerated facts, fiction is a metaphoric method of describing, dramatizing and condensing historical events, personal actions, psychological states and the symbolic knowledge encoded within the collective unconscious; things, events and conditions that are otherwise too diffuse and/or complex to be completely digested or appreciated by the prevailing culture. Tom Robbins collective-unconscious historical fiction I started writing when I was 5 years old. I would dictate stories to my mother, and she would copy them in a scrapbook. If she changed anything to make it, in her opinion, better, I would throw a tantrum. Tom Robbins mother writing years I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it. Tom Robbins islands yellow running Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present, mindless trajectory, could land those lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again. Tom Robbins wall land art what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere. Tom Robbins goal people ideas Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere. Tom Robbins evidence pay attention There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance. Tom Robbins funny-life maintenance birth It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse. Tom Robbins bible-verse ambitious world Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses. Tom Robbins muse queens christianity The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever. Tom Robbins lunch dancing beer 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 enlightenment age mind Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective. Tom Robbins distance perspective personality Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that those qualities encouraged if not engendered: vistas that seemed to have been sketched with a sumi brush dipped in quicksilver and green tea. It was fresh, it was clean, it was gently primal, and mystically suggestive. Tom Robbins quality tea weather There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same. Tom Robbins warrior flower kings I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. Tom Robbins limits men mean If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'. Tom Robbins cutting cells people You are an ignorant schoolgirl. You think civilization is a good thing. Tom Robbins ignorant civilization thinking
