Tom Robbins citáty

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„Psychologie je zhruba ve stádiu, v jakém byla chirurgie, když ji praktikovali holiči.“

„Bílí muži sledují hodiny, avšak hodiny sledují indiány.“

„Není nad božský klid podložený skutečností, že… v bance máme slušné konto.“

„Až svoboda bude zločinem, jenom zločinci budou svobodní.“

“Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.”

“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”

“Love is dope, not chicken soup.”

“Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!”

“keep your eye on the ball, even if you cannot see the ball.”

“Faith is believing in something you know isn't true.”

“When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.”

“Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.”

“The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”

“Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.”

“Madame Lily Devalier always asked "Where are you?" in a way that insinuated that there were only two places on earth one could be: New Orleans and somewhere ridiculous.”

“Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.”

“Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots.”

“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

“There are people in this world who can wear whale masks and people who cannot, and the wise know to which group they belong.”

“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”

“Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn”

“It is what it is. You are what you it. There are no mistakes.”

“Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.”

“Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.”

“Every day is Judgement Day. Always has been. Always will be.”

“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”

“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”

“It's hard to say who's a greater threat to the world, an ambitious CEO with a big ad budget or a crafty cleric with an obsolete Bible verse.”

“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”

“I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men.”

“Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.”

“Would 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. Passionthe woods.”

“He who jokes in the executioners face can be destroyed, but never defeated.”