Tom Robbins
| Born | 1932-07-22 |
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| Author of "Jitterbug Perfume", an incredibly descriptive and perceptive writer. I know thats vague but otherwise i'd be getting into a full essay. If you haven't read him, do. | |
Items (9)
- 2014 Tibetan Peach Pie
- 2003 Villa Incognito 8.0
- 2000 Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
- 1994 Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- 1990 Skinny Legs and All 9.0
- 1984 Jitterbug Perfume 9.0
- 1980 Still Life With Woodpecker 8.0
- 1976 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- 1971 Another Roadside Attraction 8.0
Quotes (14)
"Lily Devalier would have been beside herself except that there wasn't enough room at the table."
"It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at 5 in the morning."
"Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell."
"Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest."
"It is safe to say that objects, as we understand them, are relatively stable, whereas ideas are definitely unstable, they not only can be misused, they invite misuseand the better the idea the more volatile it is."
"The problem starts at the secondary level, not with the originator or developer of the idea but with the people who are attracted to it, who adopt it, who cling to it until their last nail breaks, and who invariably lack the overview, flexibility, imagination, and, most importantly, sense of humor, to maintain it in the spirit it was hatched. Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road."
"When a good idea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended."
"As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled."
"Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort"
"Each modern religion has boasted that it and it alone is on speaking terms with the Deity, and its adherents have been quite willing to die--or kill--to support its presumptuous claims."
"Let nothing interfere with economic growth, even though that growth is castrating truth, poisoning beauty, turning a continent into a shit-heap and driving an entire civilization insane."
"Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective."
"Judaeo-Christian culture owes its success to the fact the Jehovah never shows his face. What better way to control the masses than through fear of an omnipotent force whose authority can never be challenged because it is never direct?"
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."