# Skinny Legs and All

- Author: [Tom Robbins](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all

## Quotes

> "Not naive," Conch Shell had corrected him, "He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/not-naive-conch.md)

> ...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/she-recreated-the.md)

> A person can't make a career out of somebody else's invective.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/a-person-cant.md)

> Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/of-the-seven.md)

> In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/in-the-haunted.md)

> ...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/to-emphasize-the.md)

> Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/religion-is-not.md)

> "Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/leave-me-in-the.md)

> The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/the-winter-passed.md)

> "keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-robbins/skinny-legs-and-all/keep-your-eye.md)