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.“

“Your friend insults the homeless by giving them no credit for having made the decisions that shaped their lives, and demeans them further by declaring them powerless to alter their situations. There’re many ways, my dear, to victimize people. The most insidious way is to persuade them that they’re victims.”

“The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.”

“A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus.”

“What is it that separates human beings from the so called lower animals? Well as I see it, it's exactly one half dozen significant things: Humor, Imagination, Eroticism — as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glow-worms or raccoons — Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake. Now, since those are the features that define a human being, it follows that the extent to which someone is lacking in those qualities is the extent to which he or she is less than human. Capisce?”

“If you didn't serve the nasty fellow (God), the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.”

“To pragmatists, the letter Z is nothing more than a phonetically symbolic glyph, a minor sign easily learned, readily assimilated, and occasionally deployed in the course of a literate life. To cynics, Z is just an S with a stick up its butt.”

“A better world has gotta start somewhere. Why not with you and me?”

“Just because something didn't happen doesn't mean it isn't true.”

“The Devil doesn't make us do anything.”