Tom Robbins frases e citações
Tom Robbins: Frases em inglês
“Minds were made for blowing.”
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Fonte: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Fonte: Skinny Legs and All
“Love is dope, not chicken soup.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fonte: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)
“Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fonte: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Fonte: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Fonte: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994)
“Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.”
Tom Robbins B Is for Beer
Fonte: B Is for Beer
Tom Robbins livro Jitterbug Perfume
Fonte: Jitterbug Perfume
“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”
Tom Robbins livro Still Life with Woodpecker
Fonte: Still Life with Woodpecker
Tom Robbins livro Jitterbug Perfume
Fonte: Jitterbug Perfume
“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fonte: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn”
Tom Robbins livro Still Life with Woodpecker
Fonte: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
Contexto: "This is the way to burn," the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. "Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn."
“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
Tom Robbins livro Jitterbug Perfume
Fonte: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”
Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Fonte: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Fonte: Skinny Legs and All
“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Fonte: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Variante: To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Fonte: Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
Fonte: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”
Tom Robbins livro Still Life with Woodpecker
Fonte: Still Life with Woodpecker
“I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”
Tom Robbins livro Jitterbug Perfume
Fonte: Jitterbug Perfume
“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”
Tom Robbins livro Another Roadside Attraction
Fonte: Another Roadside Attraction (1971)
Tom Robbins Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Fonte: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”
Tom Robbins livro Wild Ducks Flying Backward
Fonte: Wild Ducks Flying Backward