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

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Tom Robbins

I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.

Tom Robbins

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

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Tom Robbins

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

Tom Robbins

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

Tom Robbins

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Robbins

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'

Tom Robbins

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Tom Robbins

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

Tom Robbins

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.

Tom Robbins

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Tom Robbins

When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.

Tom Robbins

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

Tom Robbins

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

Tom Robbins

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

I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me.

Tom Robbins

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

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

Tom Robbins

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

Tom Robbins

Most Americans pay lip service to the idea of freedom, but can't handle real freedom.

Tom Robbins

Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars.

Tom Robbins

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

Tom Robbins

The trouble with the fast lane is that all the movement is horizontal. And I like to go vertical sometimes.

Tom Robbins

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Tom Robbins

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

Tom Robbins

I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India.

Tom Robbins

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

Tom Robbins

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Tom Robbins

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Tom Robbins

Writing is the hardest physical work there is.

Tom Robbins

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.

Tom Robbins

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

Tom Robbins

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

Tom Robbins

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Tom Robbins