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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

“red hair is caused by sugar and lust.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Often, moreover, it is… that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“What difference does it make if the Gospel is mostly a lie? It's an engrossing story and the words of its hero are excellent words to live by, even today.”

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“But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.”

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Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

Origine: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

“When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“"I'll follow him to the ends of the earth," she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

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Tom Robbins libro Another Roadside Attraction

Origine: Another Roadside Attraction

“Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.”

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“Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Origine: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“All a person can do in this life is gather about him his integrity, his imagination, and his individuality – and with these ever with him, out front and in sharp focus, leap into the dance of experience.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

“Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Origine: Skinny Legs and All

“I have always been a romantic; one of those who believes that a woman in pink circus tights holds all the secrets of the world.”

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“People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“People of zee wurl, Relax!”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Origine: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

“salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.”

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Tom Robbins libro Another Roadside Attraction

Origine: Another Roadside Attraction

“There is a comfort in conformity, a security in control, that is appealing. There is a thrill in domination, and we are all secretly attracted to violence.”

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Tom Robbins libro Jitterbug Perfume

Origine: Jitterbug Perfume

“There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.”

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Tom Robbins libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Origine: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Origine: Skinny Legs and All

“I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.”

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Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Origine: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Contesto: ... she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."

“Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.”

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Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All

Origine: Skinny Legs and All

“Cries for help are frequently inaudible.”

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Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Origine: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“Some marriages are made in heaven,
Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”

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