Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Tom Robbins: Add a description of this character.
• Delores Del Ruby
• Julian Gitche
• Debbie
• Dr. Goldman
• Madame Zoe
• Marie
• Hankshaw Gitche
• Dr. Dreyfus
• Howard
• Jellybean
• Heather
• Jim Mcghee
• Rupert
• Kym
• Billy West
• Carla
• Elaine
• Linda
• Lucas
• Nelsen
• Dale Evans
• Jack Kerouac
• Donna
• Tule Lake
• Granny Schreiber
• Jerry
• Yoni Yum
• Siwash
• Mrs. Seward

Quotes edit see section history

• “"You Westerners are spiritually poor. Your religious philosophies are impoverished."”

• “"It's infinitely harder to pretend you're well than to pretend you're sick."”

• “"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."”

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• But plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn’t be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

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• To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die.

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• Difficulties illuminate existence, but they must be fresh and of high quality.

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• How we shape our understanding of others’ lives is determined by what we find memorable in them, and that in turn is determined not by any potentially accurate overview of another’s personality but rather by the tension and balance that exist in our daily relationships.

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• “So you think that you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with that? In the first place, if you’ve any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with wit style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.”

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• A lot of life boils down to the question of whether a person is going to be able to realize his fantasies, or else end up surviving only through compromises he can’t face up to. The way I figure it, Heaven and Hell are right here on Earth. Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It’s up to each individual which one he chooses.”

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• “There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.”

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• A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let’s not kid ourselves—all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Dakotas
• South Richmond
• America
• New York City
• Virginia
• Washington
• Mottburg
• White House
• Heaven
• Texas
• San Francisco
• Chink
• Great Burrow
• Brain
• Canada
• New Jersey
• Passaic
• Manhattan
• England
• Sissy Hankshaw
• Europe
• Kansas City
• United States
• Mexico
• Hungary
• California

First Sentence edit see section history

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Tom Robbins (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Leslie W. LePere (Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Awards edit see section history

• Publishing Triangle's 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Authors, A-Z › ( R ) › Robbins, Tom
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

Movie Connections edit see section history

• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (IMDb): This is a 1993 American comedy-drama-romance film directed by Gus Van Sant, Jr. and starring Uma Thurman as Sissy Hankshaw.

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