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It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.
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and while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied.
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Politics is the science of domination, and persons in the process of enlargement and illumination are notoriously difficult to control. Therefore, to protect its vested interests, politics usurped religion a very long time ago. Kings bought off priests with land and adornments. Together, they drained the shady ponds and replaced them with fish tanks. The walls of the tanks were constructed of ignorance and superstition, held together with f..
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People tend to take everything too seriously. Especially themselves.
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Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding. But there are folks who want to know and aren't afraid to look and won't turn tail should they find it--and if they never do, they'll have a good time anyway because nothing, neither the terrible truth nor the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.
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Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all,
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Could a person choose to be or not to be an artist?
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Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.
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I don't think I've ever felt more disoriented and alone. Or more thoroughly, serenely, at home. Every true romantic will know what I mean.
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In a patriarchal society, the abiding sexuality of the healthy female was obliged to wear a prim disguise.
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Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?
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Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity.
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The French say that the best part of an affair is going up the stairs.
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Tom Robbins |
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The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim.
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There are no such things as synonyms!" he practically shouted."
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She had heard of men who rejected the gods, who professed not to believe, but here was a believer who refused to grovel, a man who stood up to Shiva, to Buddha, to the gods of his own race, whoever they might be, who stood right up to them and demanded an accounting for a system in which pleasure must be paid for with pain, a system in which the only triumph over suffering was a hard-won oblivion, a system that offered its captive audience ..
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the professor had refused surgery for the rupturing aorta that was wiping his personal equation off the blackboard of life. "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially," Einstein had told his physicians."
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IF THIS TYPEWRITER CAN'T DO IT, then fuck it, it can't be done.
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Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace.
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Switters had always seemed to take a both/and approach to life, as opposed to the more conventional and restrictive either/or.
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Don't you see? The enemy represents Death to 'em. The government propaganda mills paint the enemy as an unfeelin', devourin' monster. So, when we go to war we go on a noble mission, a life-affirming mission, whose object is the destruction o' death. And 'tis precisely because we hate death so much that we're too crazed and irrational to see the irony in it. We hate death so bloody much that we will kill -- and die -- in order to try to halt..
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Life still begins in the womb, cocky erections still collapse and lie useless when woman's superior sexuality is finished with them, but men control the divine channels now, and while that control may be largely an illusion, their laws, institutions, and elaborate weaponry exist primarily to maintain it.
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THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
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He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic...
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An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take."
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A true believer may worship Jehovah, Allah, or Brahma, the supernatural beings who allegedly created all life; a true believer may slavishly adhere to a dogma designed theoretically to improve life; yet for life itself--its pleasures, wonders, and delights--he or she holds minimal regard. Music, chess, wine, card games, attractive clothing, dancing, meditation, kites, perfume, marijuana, flirting, soccer, cheeseburgers, any expression of be..
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Seattle, the mild green queen: wet and willing, cedar-scented, and crowned with slough grass, her toadstool scepter tilted toward Asia, her face turned ever upward in the rain; the sovereign who washes her hands more persistently than the most fastidious proctologist.
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Dar gorus, beyin egodan daha az enerjik oldugunda cogalan optik bir mantar yuzunden olusur. Siyasete maruz kalinca karmasik bir hal alir. Iyi bir dusunce, siradan dar gorusun filtre ve kompresorlerinden gecirilince ote taraftan olcu ve deger acisindan azalmis olarak cikmakla kalmaz, yeni dogmatik bicimlenimiyle baslangicta niyetlenilenin tersi etkiler uretir. Iste bu sekilde, Isa Mesih'in sevgi dolu dusunceleri, Hiristiyanlik'in kotuluk sac..
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we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
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since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.
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He was as nervous as a praying mantis at an atheists' picnic, but he bore down gently, intensifying his concentration, letting go of his attachment to gravity.
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Pious dogma, if allowed to flourish, will always drive magic away.
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In their secretly nervous hearts, they've convinced themselves, poor little delusional narcissists, that their nation is the most powerful that ever was or even will be, ignoring the still vaster empires that have crumbled in the past, conveniently forgetting that the U.S. has only existed for a mere 225 years, and refusing to consider for a nanosecond that in another 225 years it very well might be gone." *Stubblefield commentary, on patri..
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In actuality, myths are neither fiction nor history. Nor are most myths--and this will surprise some people--an amalgamation of fiction and history. Rather, a myth is something that never happened but is always happening. Myths are the plots of the psyche. They are ongoing, symbolic dramatizations of the inner life of the species, external metaphors for internal events. As Campbell used to say, myths come from the same place dreams come fro..
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South Richmond was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches- and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's decisions for them?
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Nothing is implied here. Except the possibility that everything is connected.
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Maybe the affecting aspect was that Madame Ko's tanukis sparked in an onlooker's muscles a kinetic memory of the innocent freedom of early childhood, when one could let one's body go all akimbo on the slightest whim, could bounce, flop, and skip about in pure corporeal joy without embarrassment, judgement, or restraint. Or maybe there was a more "mature" associations, memories, say, of being falling-down drunk at the company picnic-but no..
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Breath Properly, Stay Curious, and Always Eat Your Beets!
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The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life does not." --
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Tom Robbins |
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I've long tended to regard the interruption of complacency as a kind of public service.
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Tom Robbins |
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Can a woman who does not know the contents of her handbag know the contents of her heart?
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Tom Robbins |
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wasn't crying. I've had a bad day. Another one. One in a series of bad days. I'm not complaining. Bad days are my bag. They're time-consuming, however, and I'm a busy girl.
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It's been said that golf is a Zen activity. I'd argue that if golfers were practicing Zen, they wouldn't keep score.
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