Tom Robbins

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• 'We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.'
  • Still Life With Woodpecker**

• Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'.
  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

• Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
  • Skinny Legs And All

• It's a smile a girl could bring home to mother, if she had a mother; a smile a girl could pet like a pony, sip like a lemonade, hum like a popular tune; a smile a girl would feel safe with an a dark alley.
  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

• If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done.
  • Still Life With Woodpecker

• Midnight, when the monotonsous tick-tock of diurnal progress is for one throbbing moment replaced by the cool but smokey honk of a saxophone, alternately seductive and threatening. Midnight. The black growth on the clock face that has to be biopsied every twenty-four hours to see whether it is malignant or benign.
  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

• Night, when tangos play on the nurse's radio and rat poison sings its own hot song behind the cellar door. Night, when the long snake feeds, when the black sedan cruises the pleasure districts, when neon flickers "Free at Last" in a dozen lost languages, and shapes left over from childhood move furtively behind the moon-dizzy boughs of the fir.
  • Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

• People of zee wurl, Relax!
  • Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates