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Quotes from Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates — Tom Robbins

1932–2025 United States

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Would God really accept twice-a-month lovemaking for procreative purposes and give Satan the all-night, no-holds-barred, nasty "can't-get-enough-of-you" hot-as-hell fucks?

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace — and maybe even glory."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

There's birth, there's death, and in between there's maintenance.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"The more advertising I see, the less I want to buy."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"Good luck to you, pal. That's a search these days."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"I'm looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"Things. Cosas. Things attach themselves like leeches to the human soul, then they bleed out the sweetness and the music and the primordial joy of being unencumbered upon the land."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"And what would our ideas of God, of religion, be like if they had come to us through the minds of women? Ever think of that?"

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

"In the end, we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke. The soul is its punchline."

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

Moreover, given the unpleasant option of having to associate with either the self-satisfied beautiful or the self-pitying plain, he'd choose the former every time because beauty could sometimes transcend smugness whereas self-pity just made ugliness all the more unattractive.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

People of zee wurl, Relax!

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2000)

Attribution

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