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True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
- Tom Robbins
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What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.
- Tom Robbins
#Funny
#God
#Good
#Life
#Work
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
- Tom Robbins
#Masses
#Merely
#Opium
#Religion
Usually, autobiography is such an indulgence of the ego.
- Tom Robbins
#Autobiography
#Ego
#Indulgence
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
- Tom Robbins
#Grow
#Mean
#Stop
#Tell
#Up
The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.
- Tom Robbins
#Create
#End
#Freedom
#In The End
#People
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine.
- Tom Robbins
#Believe
#High
#Life Is A
#Life
#Quality
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
- Tom Robbins
#Being
#Love Is
#Love
#Loved
#Unique
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
- Tom Robbins
#Brain
#Educational
#Intelligence
#Little
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
- Tom Robbins
#Evil
#Humor
#Serious
#Survival
#Wisdom
The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.
- Tom Robbins
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#Go
#Movement
#Sometimes
#Trouble
In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.
- Tom Robbins
#Clouds
#Shoes
#Sun
#Walk
#Yourself
I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.
- Tom Robbins
#People
#Pink
#Romantic
#Universe
#Woman
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
- Tom Robbins
#Achieve
#Impossible
#Must
#Thought
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
- Tom Robbins
#Find
#Out
#Typewriter
#Who
#You
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
- Tom Robbins
#Believe
#Everything
#I Believe
#Nothing
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
- Tom Robbins
#Heroes
#Our
#Own
#Rescue
#Well
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
- Tom Robbins
#Business
#Government
#Magic
#Poor
#Soul
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.
- Tom Robbins
#Just
#Love Is
#Love
#Rules
#Us
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.
- Tom Robbins
#Been
#Humanity
#Immature
#Playful
#Sober
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
- Tom Robbins
#Dying
#Living
#Nothing
#Things
#Worth
The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism.
- Tom Robbins
#End
#Ideology
#Totalitarianism
#Ultimate
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
- Tom Robbins
#Brain
#Life
#Light
#Soul
#Spirit
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
- Tom Robbins
#Creating
#Looking
#Love
#Perfect
#Time
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
- Tom Robbins
#Different
#Differently
#Equality
#Things
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