Quotes by Tom Robbins

"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

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"What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy."

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"Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival."

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"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."

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"The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being."

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"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love."

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"I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe."

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"Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently."

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