Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.
Tom RobbinsThere was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.
Tom RobbinsMots clés loneliness
Science gives man what he needs.
But magic gives him what he wants.
Mots clés science philosophy magic wants needs
Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again.
How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
Mots clés injustice justice cops crime hawaii rodents mongooses
Since when has leadership been a criterion for sanity? Or vice versa. Hitler was a gifted leader, even Nixon. Exhibit leadership qualities as an adolescent, they pack you off to law school for an anus transplant. If it takes, you go into government.
Tom RobbinsMots clés government leadership law-school
Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
Tom RobbinsMots clés philosophy-of-life
So, even for those of us who can't personally witness Salome's dance, the fifth veil surely will fall. It will fall at the moment of our death. As we lie there, helpless, beyond distraction, electricity stealing out of our brains like a con man stealing out of a sucker's neighborhood, it will occur to many of us that everything we ever did, we did for money. And at that instant, right before the stars blink off, we will, according to what else we may have learned in life, burn with an unendurable regret--or have us a good silent laugh at our own expense.
Tom RobbinsThere were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.
Tom RobbinsTunnel 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.
Tom RobbinsMots clés humor
You dig me, don't you? A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop
Tom RobbinsMots clés women-s-rights
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