What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.
Tom RobbinsHere's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.
Tom RobbinsWhat are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls to an esoteric frog lecture on their first date? If that isn't synchronicity, it's something equally as weird.
Tom RobbinsAre you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
Tom RobbinsWestern civilization was declining too fast for comfort, but too slowly to be very exciting.
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