Tom Robbins Quotes - Page 4

• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

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  Rain, Fall, Essence

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• A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. 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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  May, Way, Still Life With Woodpecker

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Libro de Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

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  Moon, Civilization, Natural

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.13, Bantam

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• Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

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  Half, Still Life With Woodpecker, Awake

  "Naturaleza muerta con pájaro carpintero". Libro de Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• El amor nos confunde fácilmente porque siempre está en flujo entre la ilusión y la sustancia, entre el recuerdo y el deseo, entre la satisfacción y la necesidad.

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  Memories, Wish, Contentment

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.344, Bantam

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• How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

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  Disappointment, Risk, Suffering

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• The only question is how to make love stay.

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  Hacer el amor

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• La música rap... suena como si alguien le diera un diccionario de rimas a una máquina de hacer palomitas.

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  Funny, Rap, Sound

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.226, Bantam

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• You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

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  Lying, Eye, May

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with all sorts of tyranny, poverty, and painful treatment if they're convinced that they'll eventually escape to some resort in the sky where lifeguards are superfluous and the pool never closes. Moreover, the faithful are usually willing to risk their skins in whatever military adventure their government may currently be promoting.

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  Military, Believe, Adventure

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.356, Bantam

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• Eres lo que crees que comes.

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  Thinking, Hamburgers

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.66, Bantam

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• If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.

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  Prayer, Wall, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.119, Bantam

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• Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

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  Reality, Tunes, Underwater

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.84, Bantam

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• Comer una ostra cruda es como besar con lengua a una sirena.

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  Kissing, Oysters, Mermaid

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• Quiero viajar en un tren que huela a copos de nieve. Quiero sorber en cafés que huelan a cometa. Bajo la presión de mi paso, quiero que las calles desprendan el olor preciso de un collar de diamantes. Quiero que los periódicos que leo huelan como los violines que dejan en las casas de empeño los vagabundos llorones en Nochebuena. Quiero llevar un equipaje que apeste a las neuronas del cerebro de Einstein. Quiero que los gases de una ciudad huelan como los pelos dorados del vientre de los dioses. Y cuando contemple una imagen televisada de la Luna, quiero detectar, desde una distancia de 239.000 millas, el aroma de la mozzarella fresca.

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  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• ¿Yo? Yo defiendo la incertidumbre, la inseguridad, el mal gusto, la diversión y las cosas que hacen boom por la noche.

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  Fun, Night, Insecurity

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• La conclusión es que (a) las personas nunca son perfectas, pero el amor sí puede serlo, (b) esa es la única forma en que lo mediocre y lo vil pueden transformarse, y (c) hacer eso lo convierte en eso. Amar hace el amor. Amar se hace a sí mismo. Perdemos el tiempo buscando al amante perfecto en lugar de crear el amor perfecto. ¿No sería esa la forma de hacer que el amor permanezca?

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  Creating, People, Perfect

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Naturaleza muerta con pájaro carpintero", p.122, Bantam

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• Una cosa son los planes y otra el destino. Cuando coinciden, el resultado es el éxito. Sin embargo, el éxito no debe considerarse el absoluto. Es cuestionable, por otra parte, que el éxito sea una respuesta adecuada a la vida. El éxito puede eliminar tantas opciones como el fracaso.

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  Destino, Adecuado, Materia

  Tom Robbins (2003). "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues", p. 22, Bantam.

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• Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.

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  Reading, Opportunity, Desire

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.10, Bantam

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• En la casa encantada de la vida, el arte es la única escalera que no cruje.

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  Art, House, Lovely

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.37, Bantam

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• La sociedad en general está tan interesada en sus hábitos y sistemas de creencias que prefiere morir -o matar- antes que plantearse un cambio. Pensemos en lo amenazados que siguen estando los fundamentalistas religiosos de todos los credos por la ciencia en general y por Darwin en particular.

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  Religioso, Acogedor, Creencia

  "La sintaxis de la brujería". Entrevista con Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. 6 de junio de 2012.

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• You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.

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  Basketball, Golf, Thinking

  Tom Robbins (2009). “B Is for Beer”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.

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  People, Way, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2010). “Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas”, p.306, Random House

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• Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

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  Civilization, Neurosis, Normality

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.257, Bantam

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• My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.

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  Rain, People, Joy

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