Tom Robbins Quotes


A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.


Citations

Robbins, Tom. Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins
  • Born: July 22, 1932
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist

Thomas Eugene Robbins is an American novelist. His best-selling novels are "seriocomedies" (also known as "comedy-drama"). His novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues was made into a movie in 1993 by Gus Van Sant and stars Uma Thurman, Lorraine Bracco, and Keanu Reeves.