Tom Robbins Quotes


The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure), a margin whose width and length may be determined by unknown factors but whose navigation is determined by the measure of the adventurer's nerve and wits. It is exhilarating to live by one's nerves or toward the summit of one's wits.


Citations

Robbins, Tom. Still Life with Woodpecker. Bantam Books, 1980.

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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
  • Born: July 22, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"). His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.