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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 3:27:36 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 26, 2017 4:29:45 GMT -8
Is this avatar allowed in here?
'It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.'--Thomas Jefferson
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 4:39:26 GMT -8
Is this avatar allowed in here? 'It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.'-- Thomas JeffersonAs long as he doesn't say anything.  I love this book. Oddly enough, the first time I read it I hated it but I couldn't quit thinking about it so I reread it and fell in love. “Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.” ― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume |
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 4:42:03 GMT -8
“Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 4:42:23 GMT -8
“The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich. Me, I love the rich. Somebody has to love them. Sure, a lot o’ rich people are assholes, but believe me, a lot o’ poor people are assholes, too, and an asshole with money can at least pay for his own drinks.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 4:44:02 GMT -8
“The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans off you is to eat it off. That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between. It is not unusual for a visitor to the city to gain fifteen pounds in a week--yet the alternative is a whole lot worse. If you don't eat day and night, if you don't constantly funnel the indigenous flavors into your bloodstream, then the mystery beast will go right on humping you, and you will feel its sordid presence rubbing against you long after you have left town. In fact, like any sex offender, it can leave permanent psychological scars.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 4:46:02 GMT -8
“What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it may be levity.
If civilization is ever going to be anything but a grandiose pratfall, anything more than a can of deodorizer in the sh*thouse of existence, the people are going to have to concern themselves with magic and poetry.
Reality is subjective, and there's an unenlightened tendency in this culture to regard something as 'important' only if it's sober and severe. Your Cheerful Dumb are not so much happy as lobotomized. But your Gloomy Smart are just as ridiculous. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly LIKE themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your 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.
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.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 5:04:33 GMT -8
“You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.”
― Tom Robbins
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 5:07:33 GMT -8
“If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
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Post by willie with tan lines on Sept 26, 2017 5:08:18 GMT -8
“Ellen Cherry was from the south and had good manners. She didn´t have any panties on, but she had good manners.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 26, 2017 6:21:50 GMT -8
Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That’s just common sense! George Carlin
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 26, 2017 6:23:12 GMT -8
You can’t fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up.
George Carlin
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 26, 2017 6:23:42 GMT -8
If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?
George Carlin
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 26, 2017 6:25:02 GMT -8
Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.
George Carlin
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 26, 2017 6:27:20 GMT -8
I’ve never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade.
George Carlin
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