Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a…

Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.

Sourced, Jitterbug Perfume
(1984)

Other Tom Robbins Quotes

There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety - garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one’s self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar… and is devoted to the inessential. - View Quote Details on There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar…
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The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict. - View Quote Details on The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa…
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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 - View Quote Details on Accept that you’re a pimple and try to keep a…
She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute. - View Quote Details on She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had…
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She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang. - View Quote Details on She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever…
Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide. - View Quote Details on Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s…