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Quotes from Even Cowgirls Get the Blues — Tom Robbins

1932–2025 United States

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11 quotes

Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

I set an example. That's all anyone can do.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

I've lived most of my entire adult life outside the law, and never have I compromised with authority. But neither have I gone out and picked fights with authority. That's stupid.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Love is dope, not chicken soup.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Of course I've contradicted myself. I always do. Only cretins and logicians don't contradict themselves. And in their consistency, they contradict life.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tom Robbins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.