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  • #1
    J.D. Salinger
    “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #2
    W.B. Yeats
    “Never give all the heart, for love
    Will hardly seem worth thinking of
    To passionate women if it seem
    Certain, and they never dream
    That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
    For everything that's lovely is
    But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
    O Never give the heart outright,
    For they, for all smooth lips can say,
    Have given their hearts up to the play.
    And who could play it well enough
    If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
    He that made this knows all the cost,
    For he gave all his heart and lost.”
    W. B. Yeats, In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

  • #3
    W.B. Yeats
    “A mermaid found a swimming lad,
    Picked him up for her own,
    Pressed her body to his body,
    Laughed; and plunging down
    Forgot in cruel happiness
    That even lovers drown.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #4
    W.B. Yeats
    “What can be explained is not poetry.”
    W.B. Yeats

  • #5
    Tom Robbins
    “Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #6
    Tom Robbins
    “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, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #7
    Tom Robbins
    “But do we know how to make love stay?'
    I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #8
    Tom Robbins
    “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.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #9
    Tom Robbins
    “People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #10
    Tom Robbins
    “I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #11
    Tom Robbins
    “People are never perfect, but love can be. ”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #12
    Tom Robbins
    “Who knows how to make love stay?

    1. Tell love you are going to Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if loves stays, it can have half. It will stay.

    2. Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a moustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

    3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #13
    Tom Robbins
    “A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #14
    Tom Robbins
    “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #15
    Tom Robbins
    “...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business....”
    Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

  • #16
    Tom Robbins
    “Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #17
    Tom Robbins
    “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #18
    Tom Robbins
    “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.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #19
    Tom Robbins
    “Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not.
    Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end.
    Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm.
    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.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #20
    Tom Robbins
    “There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”
    Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

  • #21
    Tom Robbins
    “You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well?

    It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.”
    Tom Robbins

  • #22
    Tom Robbins
    “Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #23
    Tom Robbins
    “To diminish the worth of women, men had to diminish the worth of the moon. They had to drive a wedge between human beings and the trees and the beasts and the waters, because trees and beasts and waters are as loyal to the moon as to the sun. They had to drive a wedge between thought and feeling...At first they used Apollo as the wedge, and the abstract logic of Apollo made a mighty wedge, indeed, but Apollo the artist maintained a love for women, not the open, unrestrained lust that Pan has, but a controlled longing that undermined the patriarchal ambition. When Christ came along, Christ, who slept with no female...Christ, who played no musical instrument, recited no poetry, and never kicked up his heels by moonlight, this Christ was the perfect wedge. Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #24
    Tom Robbins
    “Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
    Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

  • #25
    Tom Robbins
    “Breathe properly. Stay curious. And eat your beets.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #26
    Tom Robbins
    “Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #27
    Tom Robbins
    “Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #28
    Tom Robbins
    “I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
    William Shakespeare, Macbeth

  • #30
    Erich Maria Remarque
    “It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.”
    Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades



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