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Tom Robbins, all'anagrafe Thomas Eugene Robbins , è uno scrittore statunitense.

Vive a Seattle.



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✵ 22. Luglio 1932  •  Altri nomi تام رابینز, 湯姆·羅賓斯, トム・ロビンズ
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Tom Robbins frasi celebri

“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.”

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“L'amore è il fuorilegge definitivo. Il mio amore per te non ha secondi fini. Ti amo gratis.”

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Origine: Natura morta con Picchio, p. 128

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

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

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Origine: Natura morta con Picchio, p. 62

“I fuorilegge sono apriscatole nel supermercato della vita.”

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Origine: Natura morta con Picchio, p. 64

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

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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

Tom Robbins: Frasi in inglese

“Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.”

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Tom Robbins libro Another Roadside Attraction

Origine: Another Roadside Attraction

“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful…”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Contesto: If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

“Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Origine: Skinny Legs and All

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“Among our egocentric sad-sacks, despair is as addictive as heroin and more popular than sex, for the single reason that when one is unhappy one gets to pay a lot of attention to oneself. Misery becomes a kind of emotional masturbation.”

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Tom Robbins libro Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Origine: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All (1990)

“It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards; a lesson, by the way, that the Earth has yet to learn.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”

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Tom Robbins libro Another Roadside Attraction

Another Roadside Attraction (1971)

“When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Origine: Skinny Legs and All

“Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air — moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh — felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.”

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Tom Robbins libro Wild Ducks Flying Backward

Origine: Wild Ducks Flying Backward

“Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“If you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropiate port you find yourself docked.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)

“If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.”

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“Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.”

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