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Wasn't it made clear that civilization is not an end in itself but a theater or gymnasium in which the evolving individual finds facilities for practice?
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Carelessness is a weakness that isn't tolerated in this order," he says in a voice that the average housewife would have to take out of the freezer at two in the afternoon if she wanted it thawed in time for supper."
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Among the Haida Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the verb for "making poetry" is the same as the verb "to breathe." --
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So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.
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Romantic love is ambulatory by nature, and it must be anchored in strata more stable than lust if it's to last. Marital disintegration is accelerated when only one, or neither, party is grounded and growing, or growing at different rates or in different directions. As I became increasingly interested in cultural matters, matters of the mind and spirit, my teenage bride waxed more and more materialistic.
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the Impressionists were able to lead the viewer into mixing color in his or her own eye.
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The whole universe is a complex of rhythms," mused Amanda. "We each of us feel a need to identify our bodily rhythms with those of the cosmos. The sea is the grand agency of rhythm. The grain-tops in the wind, the atoms that orbit are rhythmic. The uterus, which is a strong muscular organ, contracts with the birth of a baby - the rhythmic contractions, in fact, are the important motivations for the baby to emerge into the world. Rhythm is h..
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How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding ... are simply inauthentic... But there are folks who 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 or the absence of it, is going to cheat them out of one honest breath of earth's sweet gas.
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You're better equipped for this world than I am,' she said. 'I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
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Ama yine de muzikal bir sey bu, kucuk bir siir
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Mevsimlerden sonbahardi, olumun ilk bahari. syf 23
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Mevsimlerden sonbahardi, olumun ilkbahari. syf 23
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How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective,"
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And did I lose my faith in raffles about the same time and for approximately the same reasons that I quit believing that virgins can have babies; or that if I slay only those people the government encourages me to slay, I'll be allowed to spend all of eternity in some vaguely located puffyland sipping milk and honey with a huzzahing throng of cheery nonthinkers?
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this so-called animisn that not so much the Fan Nannies but everybody else around here subscribes to. can we really just write it off as primitive superstition run amok? Do only human beings have souls, or is that a narcissistic, chauvinistic piece of self-flattery? I mean, can't we look at that great old teak tree over there or at this gulch, and see as much of the divine in them as in some ol' anthropomorphic Sunday school Boom Daddy with..
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But, Foley, my lad, it isn't beauty per se that makes wire-walking Zen or makes it art. It's the extremity of the risks that are assumed by each exquisite gesture, each impossible somersault. Here's a more extreme version of the dangerous beauty bullfights used to possess before the matadors became preening cowards and stacked the desk against the beasts. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake, and I mean something mo..
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the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment
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Nonetheless, the oyster, could it fancy, should fancy its excremental equipment a hot item, for what other among Creation's crapping creatures can convert its bodily wastes into treasure?
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The only meat in the world sweeter, hotter, and pinker than Amanda's twat is Carolina barbecue.
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The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.
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Logic only gives man what he needs. Magic gives him what he wants.
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Tom Robbins |
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There are only two mantras... yum and yuk. Mine is yum.
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Tom Robbins |
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Her surname resembled a line from an optometrist's examination chart.
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Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
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Tom Robbins |
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They'd be no threat to me. I have a black belt in Haiku. And a black vest in the cleaners.
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Tom Robbins |
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Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.
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A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?
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Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
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Tom Robbins |
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She tried out the chamber pot, although she really had nothing to contribute.
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Tom Robbins |
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Any half-awake materialist well knows -- that which you hold holds you.
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Tom Robbins |
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The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
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Tom Robbins |
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Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.
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