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Tom Robbins
American
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About the author
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Religion
#Opium
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Heroes
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Time
#Love
#Waste
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,
American
Author
#Results
#Disorder
#Stability
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Being
#Question
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Thought
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Love
#Being
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Sky
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#People
#Imagination
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Authority
#Order
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#God
#Public
#Will
#Crime
#Country
#Name
I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Nothing
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,
American
Author
#Humanity
Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Stars
#Folly
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Equality
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Government
#Poor
#Magic
#Soul
#Business
#Force
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Living
#Worth
#Killing
#Dying