Αν δεν υπηρετούσες αυτόν τον κακότροπο τύπο, οι Ρωμαίοι σου καίγανε το σπίτι. Αν τον υπηρετούσες, ονομαζόσουν Χριστιανός και έπρεπε να καις τα σπίτια των αλλονών.
Tom RobbinsΔε νομίζω (πως είναι βλασφημία). Αυτοί που με έπλασαν, δημιούργησαν κι αυτό το μυαλό που γεννάει την αντίδραση στα σχέδιά τους. Σίγουρα πρέπει να ήταν αρκετά σοφοί ώστε να προβλέψουν τη μελλοντική αντίσταση στην καρδιά που έπλαθαν.
Tom RobbinsWhat bothers me today is the lack of, well, I guess you'd call it authentic experience. So much is a sham. So much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized. You know, less than half a century ago there were sixty-three varieties of lettuce in California alone. Today, there are four. And they are not the four best lettuces, either; not the most tasty or nutritious. They are the hybrid lettuces with built-in shelf life, the ones that have a safe, clean, consistent look in the supermarket. It's that way with so many things. We're even standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. The sham is everywhere.
Tom RobbinsSuccess can eliminate as many options as failure.
Tom RobbinsThere's no such thing as security in this life sweetheart, and the sooner you accept that fact, the better off you'll be. The person who strives for security will never be free. The person who believes she's found security will never reach paradise. What she mistakes for security is purgatory. You know what purgatory is, Gwendolyn? It's the waiting room, it's the lobby. Not only does she have the wrong libretto, she's stuck in the lobby where she can't see the show.
Tom RobbinsThe theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it is always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is somber and harsh. You're acquainted with Greek tragedy?
Tom RobbinsWould you complain because a beautiful sunset doesn't have a future or a shooting star a payoff? And why should romance 'lead anywhere'? Passion isn't a path through the woods. Passion is the woods.
Tom RobbinsThere are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom RobbinsWhen two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend to feed on that gratuitous magic without striving to make any more. One day we wake up and find that the magic is gone. We hustle to get it back, but by then it's usually too late, we've used it up. What we have to do is work like hell at making additional magic right from the start. It's hard work, but if we can remember to do it, we greatly improve our chances of making love stay.
Tom RobbinsThe illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car.
Tom RobbinsTags: philosophy-of-life
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