Forum / Tom Robbins Has Died

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  Darryl Price

  Feb 10, 03:45am

  I think you can draw a direct line from Mark Twain to Kurt Vonnegut to Tom Robbins, except that Tom wasn't as bitter or sarcastic as either of those fine gentlemen. Mr. Vonnegut caused me to laugh out loud many times and certainly made a lot of sense of the insanity we live in. But it was Tom Robbins who taught me to love silliness and see the beauty in the mundane in new and unexpected ways. When he would describe a sunset, it was with the wildest, most unexpected words possible--and I found this just thrilling. He sounds like no one else because he kept himself intact, even on his wildest adventures in storytelling; he kept things friendly and fun, but also serious and thought-provoking. Tom Robbins could keep you sane, bring you back to center in a celebration of life in all its craziness. I used a quote from him to open my book, The Ferocious Silence in 2016: "You should insist on joy in spite of everything."

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  Chris Okum

  Feb 10, 07:12pm

  RIP

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  Darryl Price

  Feb 12, 04:05pm

  “We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.”

  “It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg.”

  “Salvation is for the feeble, that’s what I think. I don’t want salvation. I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.”

  --quotes by Tom Robbins

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