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Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true. (Tom Robbins)
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. View quote
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The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas. View quote
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Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent! View quote
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You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House. View quote
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Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. View quote
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The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously. View quote
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...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell. View quote
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In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak. View quote
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Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark. View quote
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Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines'. (Tom Robbins)
Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory. View quote
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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. View quote
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Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked. View quote
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There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum. View quote
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What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie. View quote
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. View quote
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A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised. View quote
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Peeple of zee wurl, relax. View quote
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In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line. View quote
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I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys in Bangalore, India. (Tom Robbins)
Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks. View quote
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When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work. View quote
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Throughout most of our history, nothing – not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons – has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed. View quote
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Don't confuse symmetry with balance. View quote
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