5 Tom Robbins Quotes on History

Tom Robbins quotes on history

32. This stuff's so fine Julius Caesar called for it with his dying breath. 'A toot, Brutus,' is what he said.

63. 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.

92. 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.

95. So this, then, is the chamber of the hootchy-kootch. Its bathtub full of orchids. Its closet full of smoke.

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