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The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling
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Humanity was a function of nature. It could not, therefore, live separately from nature except in a self-deceiving masquerade. It could not live in opposition to nature except in a schizophrenic crime. And it could not blind itself to the wonders of nature without mutating into something too monstrous to love. Yes,
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Should a person possess a heart that is as light as a feather, then that person is granted immortality.
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We will destroy the tyranny of the dull. But we can't destroy it with guns. Or whips. Violence is the dullard's Breakfast of Champions, and the logical end product of his or her misplaced pride. Violence fertilizes that which we would starve. But Debbie, we can't love the dull away either. We only pollute our own waters when we try to extend our true affection to those who don't know how to accept love or to give it. Love is very powerful, ..
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Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!
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Tom Robbins |
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What was it like in there? Inside a daisy?" My answer: "Like a cathedral made of mathematics and honey."
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Our religion, our party, our tribe, our town, our school, our race, our nation. Believe. Belong. Behave. Or Be damned.
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Tom Robbins |
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Had Ken Kesey opened Electric Kool-Aid stands on every college campus in the country, it would have made a lesser contribution than Life to the creation of that era of unprecedented foment we like to call "the sixties."
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Tom Robbins |
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Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.
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Tom Robbins |
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Women are tough and rather coarse. They were built for the raw, crude work of bearing children. You'd be amazed at what they can do when they divert that baby-hatching energy into some other enterprise.
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Tom Robbins |
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Life isn't simple; it's overwhelmingly complex. The love of simplicity is an escapist drug, like alcohol.
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Tom Robbins |
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Now I'd fallen into it like a drunk hobo falling into a vat of champagne.
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Tom Robbins |
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it's hardly headline news that the corporate state and its media are using the latest gadget-com and gimmick-tech to dumb us down as steadily as if they were standing on a stool and pounding our brains with a frozen ham.
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Tom Robbins |
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nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.
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She had only the slimmest notion of what he meant, but his voice made her so horny she could barely keep from squirming, crossing her legs, or hopping about, like a little girl who had to go to the bathroom. On
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the concert had energized me in a peculiar and powerful way. It had jimmied the lock on my language box and smashed the last of my literary inhibitions.
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Tom Robbins |
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Every fifteen minutes or so the harvest moon would bleed through the tourniquet of cloud cover that conspired to squeeze every droplet of pictorial sentiment out of the Skagit landscape in order that a more refined Chinese moon might brush the countryside. In the aloof washes of moonlight no form seemed to stir.
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Tom Robbins |
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I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.
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Tom Robbins |
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Only the obtuse are unappreciative of paradox.
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Tom Robbins |
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Surely there would be humidity and plenty of it in Hell. Hard to imagine a condemned sinner saying cheerfully, "Well, yes, it's two hundred and sixty degrees down here, but it's a *dry* heat."
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Tom Robbins |
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There have been cans of dog food more splendiferous than South Richmond. Land mines more tender.
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Tom Robbins |
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Sissy dear. Your thumbs. HOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR. LAS VEGAS. THE ROSE BOWL. Larger than any one man's desire.
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To Gulietta, indoor plumbing was the devil's device. Of all the follies of the modern world, that one struck her as the most unnecessary. There was something unnatural, foolish, and a little filthy about going indoors. Ont he European estates where she was reared, it was common practice for servant girls to lift their skirts outside. Gulietta had seen no reason to alter her habits in Seattle. Despite the difficulty there of doing one's natu..
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With me, something different and deep, in bright focus and pointing the way, arrived in the practice of hitchhiking. I am the spirit and the heart of hitchhiking, I am its cortex and its medulla, I am its foundation and its culmination, I am the jewel in its lotus.
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omphaloskepsis,
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Humans are the most advanced of mammals--although a case could be made for the dolphins--because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but becaus..
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Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. The
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An den uperetouses auton ton kakotropo tupo, oi Romaioi sou kaigane to spiti. An ton uperetouses, onomazosoun Khristianos kai eprepe na kais ta spitia ton allonon.
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Perhaps that is why desire causes men calamity. By identifying with our desires and taking them too seriously, we not only increase our susceptibility to disappointment, we actually create a climate inhospitable to the free and easy fulfillment of those desires.
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Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.
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He said that when you're locked up, smoking a cigarette is like having a friend.
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And if your master truly loved you, he would tell you that. In order to escape the bounds of earthly experience, you bind yourself to a master. Bound is bound. If your master really loved you, he would not demand your devotion. He would set you free--from himself, first of all.
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You mean you would have me blow up something just because I didn't approve of it? What do you think I am, a vandal? A fascist? A fucking critic?
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no amount of money could buy security, and if it could, it would be a bad bargain at any price, since security was a form of paralysis, just as satisfaction was a form of death;
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Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.
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Tom Robbins |
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Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego.
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Tom Robbins |
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Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.
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although the phrase "come back" is misleading because in the realm of meditative daydream the only way to "go there" is, paradoxically, to totally "be here."
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Tom Robbins |
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We entertain the immortals in order that they might be persuaded to help us recover the strength and unity stolen from us by death.
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Tom Robbins |
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I'm an outlaw not a philosopher, but I know this much: there's meaning in everything, all things are connected, and a good champagne is a drink.
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Tom Robbins |
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In the beginning was the word and the word was CHOICE
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Tom Robbins |
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I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.
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Tom Robbins |
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a hangover without a head to torment is like a philanthropist without an institution to endow),
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Tom Robbins |
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Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.
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