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Author: Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume
At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by our parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swallowed by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits, and gnawed by age; and by that time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown. The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find that you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means, Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.
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Tom Robbins _ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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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Tom Robbins _ Villa Incognito
the notion of life implies a certain absoluteness of self-enjoyment
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Tom Robbins _ Villa Incognito
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 more consequential than money or reputation. The great value of a high-wire act is that it has no practical value. The fact that so much skill and effort and courage can be directed into something so ostensibly useless is what makes it useful. That's what affords it the power to lift us out of context and carry us-elsewhere.
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Tom Robbins _ Villa Incognito
...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 imaginary long gray whiskers and a platinum bathrobe? Are we capable of entertaining the possibility that there may have been a holy entity in the cross as well as on it?
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Tom Robbins _ Tibetan Peach Pie: A True
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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Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All
How do you know that?" "Maybe I'm a fucking detective,
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Tom Robbins _ Still Life with Woodpecker
Mevsimlerden sonbahardı, ölümün ilkbaharı. syf 23
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Tom Robbins _ Still Life with Woodpecker
Mevsimlerden sonbahardı, ölümün ilk baharı. syf 23
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Tom Robbins _ Skinny Legs and All
Ama yine de müzikal bir şey bu, küçük bir şiir
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Tom Robbins _ Still Life with Woodpecker
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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Tom Robbins _ Still Life with Woodpecker
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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