Author: Tom Robbins

Cites

• Aldous Huxley (1)
  • IN: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
    FROM: Brave New World, (1932), Novel, UK
• Franz Kakfa (1)
  • IN: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
    FROM: The Zürau Aphorisms, (1931), Book, Austria
• Erica Jong (1)
  • IN: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Here should be a picture of my favorite apple. It is also a nude & bottle. It is also a landscape. There are no such things as still lifes.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Franz Kafka (1)
  • IN: Skinny Legs and All (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed
    FROM: Parables and Paradoxes, (1961), Book, Austria
• R. E. M. (1)
  • IN: Skinny Legs and All (1990) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine)
    FROM: "End of the world as we know it", (1987), Song, US
• Bible (1)
  • IN: Another Roadside Attraction (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
    FROM: John 21:25, (100), Bible, NULL
• Thomas Jr., Lowell (1)
  • IN: Another Roadside Attraction (1971) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Incidentally, Reggie Fox, who runs the Dalai Lama's 16-mm. projector, said that 16-mm. Tarzan films or Marx Brothers films would make a big hit with the Dalai Lama and those around him. They most certainly don't want to see any pictures where human or animal life is taken; amusement and adventure are the things that they are interested in.
    FROM: Out of this World (Appendix, "What to Take When You Go to Tibet"), (1950), NULL, US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas (1994) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It has been demonstrated that some amphibians are able to use celestial bodies for orientation.
    FROM: The Encyclopaedia Britannica, (1768), Book, NULL
• Bertolt Brecht (1)
  • IN: Villa Incognito (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You never know to whom you're talking.
    FROM: The Threepenny Opera, (1929), Play, Germany
• Ernest Becker (1)
  • IN: Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and and death that characterize all other organisms.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Eric Maple (1)
  • IN: Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The history of civilization is the story of man's emancipation from a lot that was harsh, brutish, and short. Every step of that upward climb to a sophisticated way of life has been paralleled by a corresponding advance in the art of perfumery.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Dylan Thomas (1)
  • IN: Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Lynda Barry (1)
  • IN: Jitterbug Perfume (1984) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: (And) always smell as nice as possible.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US

Cited by

• Alison Cherry (2)
  • IN: Red (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Redheaded women! Those blood oranges! Those cherry bombs! Those celestial shrews and queens of copper! May they never cease to stain our white-bread lives with super-natural catsup.
    FROM: Ode to Redheads, (1998), NULL, US