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Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective. Richard Louis Evans		Wednesday Feb 25, 2026
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About Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins

	Thomas Eugene (Tom) Robbins
	(1936-) US novelist; wrote novels Skinny Legs and All 1990, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas 1994.

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Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek.

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.

To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

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

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

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

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

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