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Quotes from Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
All dreams continue in the beyond.
~ Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume