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| 532dae1 | MOCKINGBIRDS ARE THE TRUE ARTISTS of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mockingbirds aren't content to merely play the hand that is dealt them. Like all artists, they are out to rearrange reality. Innovative, willful, daring, not bound by the rules to which others may blindly adhere, the mockingbird .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| da58848 | Beer can lead men to think they're mighty and foul-mouthed women to believe themselves amusing and hip. | Tom Robbins | ||
| b842a46 | Not surprisingly, the socks remain silent, as was their legal right. | Tom Robbins | ||
| c21cdd4 | Beer's nice for being glad and dizzy, and sometimes for the mystery and stuff, but the happy that comes out of a beer can is not like the real happy you got to make in your heart. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 0702917 | The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish | dinosaurs fossil-fuels | Tom Robbins | |
| 7f0e75e | Grinning, she hovered over him. Then, like a fist closing around a doorknob, her grin closed around him. With her lips, she turned the knob first one way and then the other: left, right, open, shut; left, right, open, shut. The knob did not squeak. In fact, Wiggs was unusually quiet. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 572290e | we do know that she's compassionate and eccentric--an excellent combination in a human being; | Tom Robbins | ||
| 123b096 | You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We--we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put--you put your mouth on me." "Shoulda checked the fine print, hon," whispered Ellen Cherry, trying to assist him back onto the ivy vines as quietly as possible. "That blow job did not come with a lifetime warranty." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2ed1caf | We must accept unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe--and go on about our tasks. . . . | Tom Robbins | ||
| 693d8e4 | Water- the ace of elements. Water dives from the clouds without parachute, wings or safety net. Water runs over the steepest precipice and blinks not a lash. Water is buried and rises again; water walks on fire and fire gets the blisters. | Tom Robbins | ||
| d682047 | It is not a belly button. (The umbilicus serves, then withdraws, leaving but a single footprint where it stood: the navel, wrinkled and cupped, whorled and domed, blind and winking, bald and tufted, sweaty and powdered, kissed and bitten, waxed and fuzzy, bejeweled and ignored; reflecting as graphically as breasts, seeds or fetishes the omnipotent fertility in which Nature dangles her muddy feet, the navel looks in like a plugged keyhole to.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 28ccd5e | It was wonderful, Pris." "What was, honey? The meeting? The champagne?" "The eclipse," said Ricki. "It was probably the most real thing I've ever seen, but it was also like a dream. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind." "That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 368d9e1 | Long as you're not afraid, nobody can run your life for you. Remember that. Hell is being scared of things. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3cc1f23 | In addition, Dr. Dannyboy has suggested a fifth element: positive thinking. Pointing out that their breathing, bathing, dining and screwing brought Alobar and Kudra much physical pleasure, and that an organism steeped in pleasure is an organism disposed to continue, he has said that the will to live cannot be overestimated as a stimulant to longevity. Indeed Dr. Dannyboy goes so far as to claim that ninety percent of all deaths are suicides.. | suicide | Tom Robbins | |
| 2ba4a9c | I was a medic in the Army. I really should have become a doctor. Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom. I have pills to elevate moods and open people's eyes to the awful truth: uppers and downers as it were. I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them lose themselves when they require esca.. | Tom Robbins | ||
| bd02de1 | Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists." | Tom Robbins | ||
| f65b4f6 | To eliminate the agitation and disappointment of desire, we need but awaken to the fact that we have everything we want and need right now. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 03682c9 | Be careful what goes into your mouth and what comes out of it. | Tom Robbins | ||
| fc415f8 | despair is ultimately destructive to oneself and a burden to others; and that if one persists in it, the gods will sooner or later lose patience and give one something to really despair about. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e751ecb | Claude and Marcel LeFever were speaking in French. This simultaneous English translation is being beamed to the reader via literary satellite.) | Tom Robbins | ||
| d62a348 | The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. Still, lovers quarrel. Frequently, they quarrel simply to recharge the air between them, to sharpen the aliveness of their relationship. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1f2e591 | When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life that is almost as deep-seated as the fear of death. Indeed, the resentment of life and the fear of death are virtually synonymous. Does it follow, then, that the more people ask of living, the less their fear of dying? | Tom Robbins | ||
| 1dda75a | Kalbim bir ucuncu dunya ulkesi/Senin askinsa Isvicre'den gelmis bir turist | Tom Robbins | ||
| 75451a7 | The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of a lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince, an enterprise destined to dull the shine of many a passion. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ddd687f | There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself. Answer me that and I will ease your mind about the beginning and the end of time. Answer me that and I will reveal to you the purpose of the moon. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 2cc5dc9 | Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better. | Tom Robbins | ||
| cb169d5 | Is this blasphemy, my lord?" "I think not. Those who crafted me, be they gods or demons, crafted this mind that shapes my resistance to their schemes. Surely they were wise enough, at the wheel where I was thrown, to anticipate future resistance in the heart they were abuilding." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 3bc6b4c | Insanin amaclari, idealleri, ugrunda mucadele edecegi nedenleri varsa, o zaman o insan, kafasinin uzerinde sican kilma asili sallanan kilica tum dikkatini veremez. Her birimize bir yolculuk bileti verilmistir. Eger yolculuk ilgincse (sikiciysa zaten tek suclusu kendimiz oluruz), o zaman cevremize bakip zevkini cikaririz (ne de cabuk geciyordur manzara yanimizdan!), cevredeki diger yolcularla cene calariz, sik sik kalkip tuvalete ziyaretler .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| e3b9be9 | In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 4a8aa12 | Okay, it is what it is and I am what I it, but its isness and my itness seem to be stretching the meaning of "is" and "it." | Tom Robbins | ||
| 9cf8d30 | The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off. | new-orleans | Tom Robbins | |
| 9d3a9d9 | They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong. Compared, calendar page against calendar page, it looks to be the shortest, all right. Spread between January and March like lard on bread, it fails to reach the crust on either slice. In its galoshes it's a full head shorter than December, although in leap years, when it has growth spurts, it comes up to April's nose. However more abbreviated than it's cousins .. | Tom Robbins | ||
| af026a7 | Christ said that illumination is found only by putting everything one has in jeopardy. Thou, of all humans, should understand the courage that is required to reject the secure blessings of society in order to woo the unpredictable ecstasies of the solitary soul. It is true that Christ had little enthusiasm for dance or copulation, that he took 'right' and 'wrong' too seriously and set himself apart from the natural world, | Tom Robbins | ||
| 8f40402 | In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine joke; a long joke that's being continually retold in an accent too thick and too strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke, my friends. The soul is the punch line. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 55cc228 | The Goths didn't destroy Rome, nor did they massacre the population. On the contrary, the Barbarians took particular care to provide safe-houses for civilians and not to harm public buildings. | Terry Jones | ||
| 29c89b0 | Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language. | Terry Jones | ||
| 4b6ae44 | The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. In their widest ramifications 'the Middle Ages' thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. BRIAN STOCK, Listening for the text | Terry Jones | ||
| f341483 | To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know--and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of--a great many truths. | Harry G. Frankfurt | ||
| 2938c6f | Is truth something that in fact we do--and should--especially care about? Or is the love of truth, as professed by so many distinguished thinkers and writers, itself merely another example of ? | bullshit introduction truth | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| b5d1681 | The notion of carefully wrought bullshit involves, then, a certain inner strain. Thoughtful attention to detail requires discipline and objectivity. It entails accepting standards and limitations that forbid the indulgence of impulse or whim. It is this selflessness that, in connection with bullshit, strikes us as inapposite. But in fact it is not out of the question at all. The realms of advertising and of public relations, and the nowaday.. | craftsmanship marketing politics | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| 0e997f6 | Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of beliefs. | bullshit civilization philosophy | Harry G. Frankfurt | |
| a0c4b7e | Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself. | hate jonathan-swift neighbors the-tables-of-the-law | W.B. Yeats | |
| daa8a62 | It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift's novel threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he didn't believe a word of it. He obviously thought that the story was meant to be true, but suspected that it was invented. Which, of course, is just what it is. The bishop was dismissing the fiction because he thought it was fiction. | Terry Eagleton | ||
| 3177c79 | Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Swift publish.. | Jonathan Swift |