Frasi di Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
Data di nascita: 22. Luglio 1932
Altri nomi: トム・ロビンズ, 湯姆·羅賓斯, تام رابینز
Tom Robbins, all'anagrafe Thomas Eugene Robbins , è uno scrittore statunitense.
Vive a Seattle.
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Frasi Tom Robbins
„L'amore è il fuorilegge definitivo. Il mio amore per te non ha secondi fini. Ti amo gratis.“
— Tom Robbins
Natura morta con Picchio, p. 128
„Tutti coloro che vivono soggetti alle leggi altrui sono vittime.“
— Tom Robbins
Natura morta con Picchio, p. 62
„I fuorilegge sono apriscatole nel supermercato della vita.“
— Tom Robbins
Natura morta con Picchio, p. 64
„Non è mai troppo tardi per farsi un'infanzia felice.“
— Tom Robbins
Natura morta con Picchio, explicit
„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
„It's never too late to have a happy childhood.“
— Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker
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
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980), Context: 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?
Leigh-Cheri to Bernard, in Phase III, Ch. 46.
„… disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business….“
— Tom Robbins, 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
„A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.“
— Tom Robbins, libro Jitterbug Perfume
Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
„There is no such thing as a weird human being. It's just that some people require more understanding than others.“
— Tom Robbins, libro Another Roadside Attraction
Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
„Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism.“
— Tom Robbins
The Syntax of Sorcery (2012), Context: We humans have always defined ourselves by narration. What's happening today is that we're allowing multi-national corporations to tell our stories for us. The theme of corporate stories (and millions drink them in every day) seldom varies: to be happy you must consume, to be special you must conform. Absurd, obviously, yet our identities have become so fragile, so elusive, that we seem content to let advertisers provide us with their version of who we are, to let them recreate us in their image: a cookie-cutter image based on market research, shallow sociology, and insidious lies. Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. And yes, it's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism..
