Frasi di Tom Robbins

„Lo scetticismo verso la magia può forzare una povera anima a credere nel governo e negli affari.“

—  Tom Robbins

„Tutti coloro che vivono soggetti alle leggi altrui sono vittime.“

—  Tom Robbins

Origine: Natura morta con Picchio, p. 62

„La vera stabilità si ottiene quando l'ordine presunto e il disordine presunto sono bilanciati. Un sistema veramente stabile si aspetta l'inaspettato, è preparato ad essere smantellato, si aspetta di essere trasformato.“

—  Tom Robbins

„I dinosauri sono morti così che le chat potessero fiorire.“

—  Tom Robbins

„I fuorilegge sono apriscatole nel supermercato della vita.“

—  Tom Robbins

Origine: Natura morta con Picchio, p. 64

„Non è mai troppo tardi per farsi un'infanzia felice.“

—  Tom Robbins

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Natura morta con Picchio

„Io? Io rappresento incertezza, insicurezza, sorpresa, disordine, assenza di legge, cattivo gusto, divertimento e ciò che di notte fa bum.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker

„Ma mia cara… Lei così attraente e intelligente… Possibile che non abbia una vita affettiva?"
"Non esiste più nessuno che l'abbia. In questo nostro tempo la gente ha una vita sessuale, non affettiva. Moltissimi stanno persino rinunciando al sesso. Quanto a me, non ho una vita affettiva perché non ho mai incontrato un uomo che sapesse come avere un vita affettiva. Forse neppure io lo so.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker

„On the poor use of grammar It's a matter of usage. If a house is off-plumb and rickety and lets in the wind, you blame the mason, not the bricks. Our words are up to the job. It's our syntax that's limiting.“

—  Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

„The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Another Roadside Attraction

Origine: Another Roadside Attraction

„…the natural process of aging, which according to Dr. Wiggs Dannyboy, is so unnaturally cruel that only man could have ordained it — neither nature nor God would stoop so low.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Jitterbug Perfume

Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

„The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

„It's never too late to have a happy childhood.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

„The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Contesto: I’m not quite twenty, but, thanks to you, I’ve learned something that many women these days never learn: Prince Charming really is a toad. And the Beautiful Princess has halitosis. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay?

„… disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business….“

—  Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

„Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.“

—  Tom Robbins

„There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.“

—  Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

„We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

„A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)