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Hallelujah!!!    




On Jan 23, 2010, at 3:53 PM, John Carl wrote:

> So I found this great site full of Tom Robbins Quotes, and I gathered them
> for proper dispersal to the deserving parties:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For Horse,
> 
> I can only hope that, upon learning of my imminent execution, Good
> Samaritans in Colorado will be moved to ship me a plump love apple from
> their backyard patch - and should they happen to be friendly with Hunter S.
> Thompson, perhaps persuade him to inject it with a little something
> beforehand. Hunter will know just what I mean, and trust me, it won't affect
> the taste of the tomato.*
> 
> 
> *When I wrote those lines, Thompson was alive and blooming. Now, with his
> sad demise, still more color has faded out of the American scene. Where are
> the men today whose lives are not beige; where are the writers whose style
> is not gray?"
> 
> 
> For Platt and Ham,
> 
> "Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If
> you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a
> scary adversary."
> 
> 
> "The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly
> or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody
> envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot
> o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are
> assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own
> drinks."
> 
> 
> "As any car freak will tell you, the old models are the most beautiful, even
> if they aren't the most efficient. People who sacrifice beauty for
> efficiency get what they deserve.’
> 
> For Bo,
> 
> "Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call
> sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists."
> 
> For Mary,
> 
> "Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift
> to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with
> fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of
> Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We
> smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the
> primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It's not the tobacco
> we're after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the
> fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.
> Does that mean that chain smokers are religious fanatics? You must admit
> there's a similarity.
> 
> The lung of the smoker is a naked virgin thrown as a sacrifice into the
> godfire."
> 
> 
> For Krimel,
> 
> "Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're
> cynical doesn't mean you're cool."
> 
> For Lu,
> 
> "Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse
> for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent
> to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During
> periods of so-called economic depression, for example, societies suffered
> for want of all manner of essential goods, yet investigation almost
> invariably disclosed that there were plenty of goods available. Plenty of
> coal in the ground, corn in the fields, wool on the sheep. What was missing
> was not materials but an abstract unit of measurement called 'money.' It was
> akin to a starving woman with a sweet tooth lamenting that she couldn't bake
> a cake because she didn't have any ounces. She had butter, flour, eggs,
> milk, and sugar, she just didn't have any ounces, any pinches, any pints.
> The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were
> measured had become more valuable than the things themselves."
> 
> For Arlo,
> 
> "To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it
> surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its capacity to
> surprise, it relinquishes its music; to the extent that it loses its ability
> to tolerate ridiculous and even dangerous exceptions, it loses its grace."
> 
> For Ian,
> 
> "How can one person be more real than any other? Well, some people do hide
> and others seek. Maybe those who are in hiding--escaping encounters,
> avoiding surprises, protecting their property, ignoring their fantasies,
> restricting their feelings, sitting out the Pan pipe hootchy-kootchy of
> experience--maybe those people, people who won't talk to rednecks, or if
> they're rednecks won't talk to intellectuals, people who're afraid to get
> their shoes muddy or their noses wet, afraid to eat what they crave, afraid
> to drink Mexican water, afraid to bet a long shot to win, afraid to
> hitchhike, jaywalk, honky-tonk, cogitate, osculate, levitate, rock it, bop
> it, sock it, or bark at the moon, maybe such people are simply inauthentic,
> and maybe the jackleg humanist who says differently is due to have his
> tongue fried on the hot slabs of Liar's Hell. 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."
> 
> 
> 
> For Ron,
> 
> 
> "Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve toward a wiser, more
> liberated and luminous state of being; to return to Eden, make friends with
> the snake, and set up our computers among the wild apple trees. Deep down,
> all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution - a
> melding into the godhead, into love - is our true task. Yet we suppress the
> notion with considerable force because to admit it is to acknowledge that
> most of our political gyrations, religious dogmas, social ambitions and
> financial ploys are not merely counterproductive but trivial. Our mission is
> to jettison those pointless preoccupations and take on once again the
> primordial cargo of inexhaustible ecstasy.
> 
> Or, barring that, to turn out a good thin-crust pizza and a strong glass of
> beer. "
> 
> 
> For myself,
> 
> 
> "The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly
> flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a
> delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our
> lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible,
> laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end
> it's love and love alone that really matters."
> 
> 
> 
> For All,
> 
> "They glared at him  the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when
> what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a
> good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophical aphorisms."
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