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Every Man Dies Alone
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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

Tom Robbins
“There is a particularly unattractive and discouragingly common affliction called tunnel vision, which for all the misery it causes, ought to top the job list at the World Health Organization. Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel vision is caused by an optic fungus that multiplies when the brain is less energetic than the ego. It is complicated by exposure to politics. When a good dea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comps out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

David Foster Wallace
“... That no single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is
“The only appropriate state of mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of heart is joy.”
― Terry Prachett

Tom Robbins
“There are essential and inessential insanities. The latter are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Inessential insanities are a brittle amalgamation of ambition, aggression, and pre-adolescent anxiety - garbage that should have been dumped long ago. Essential insanities are those impulses one instinctively senses are virtuous and correct, even though peers may regard them as coo-coo. Inessential insanities get one in trouble with one's self. Essential insanities get one in trouble with others. In fact, it may be essential. Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities.-”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

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