Tom Robbins Quotes on History
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This stuff's so fine Julius Caesar called for it with his dying breath. 'A toot, Brutus,' is what he said.
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The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.
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This is the room of the wolfmother wallpaper, the room where the black virgin fell down the chimney and burned a hole in the linoleum. Countless are the antelope hooves that have pounded this floor. No wonder the lineleum is worn.
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So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.
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Nostalgia's nice enough in little bitty doses, it puts personal peach fuzz on the hard ass of history.