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Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.
Sep 17, 2025
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.
What we have here is an unexpected touchdown on the runway of the heart.
People are never perfect, but love can be.
Outlaws are can openers in the supermarket of life.
Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
Intimacy is the principal source of the sugars which this life is sweetened!
There're many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they're victims.
Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.
Hawaii made the mouth of her soul water.
Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.
When 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.
A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.
People who sacrifice beauty for efficiency get what they deserve. (Bernard Mickey Wrangle, p 99)
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.
The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.
We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success.
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need.
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.
O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate
There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.
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.
There are two kinds of people in this world, and I am one of them.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
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.
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
If you want to change the world, help the women.
If you want to change the world, be that change.
If you want to change the world, make something beautiful.
Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.
If you want to change the world, change it through the market
If you want to change the world, change yourself.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.
Who knows how to make love stay? Tell love you are going to the Junior's Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
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.
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.