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Tom Robbins - From the Artists category:
The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society is to call the old magic back to life. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Concentration category:
The very act of creation requires such focused concentration that vast areas of knowledge may be completely overlooked. Well, so what? There is no evidence that generalized skills are in any way superior to specialized brilliance. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Eccentricity category:
There are essential and inessential insanities... Inessential insanities get one in trouble with oneself. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. It's always preferable to be in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Genius category:
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Happiness category:
It is never too late to have a happy childhood. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Humanity category:
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)
Tom Robbins - From the Imitation category:
A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Life category:
Life is hard if you think it's hard. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Magic category:
If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Mediocrity category:
Certainly that sputterless little candleflame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Play category:
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Purpose category:
It is the function of the artist to call attention to what life does not. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Teaching category:
Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received. (Tom Robbins)
Tom Robbins - From the Words category:
Those people who recognize that the imagination is reality's master we call sages, and those who act upon it we call artists or lunatics. (Tom Robbins)
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