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161 " CHOICE. That’s the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall. "
― Tom Robbins , Still Life with Woodpecker
162 " Loving makes love. Loving makes itself. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn’t that be the way to make love stay? "
163 " The mystics say that as soon as you give it up, you can have it. That may be true, but who wants it when you don’t want it. "
164 " 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 dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. "
165 " Възбудата превръщаше очите ѝ в точки, досущ като ония, които стоят в края на всяко изречение. Запетайки на възбуда се поклащаха в стомаха ѝ, където се гърчеха също и въпросителни знаци. Отвреме на време тя се чувстваше така, сякаш седи върху възклицателни. "
166 " It was Jefferson’s genius that kept the American Revolution from being sucked into the tunnel faster than it was. Jefferson had red hair. Nothing is implied here. "
167 " In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that anyway you turn them they are sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that anyway you turn them they are scrambled. "
168 " Ideas are made by masters, dogma by disciples, and the Buddha is always killed on the road. "
169 " Tunnel vision is a disease in which perception is restricted by ignorance and distorted by vested interest. Tunnel 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. When a good idea is run through the filters and compressors of ordinary tunnel vision, it not only comes out reduced in scale and value but in its new dogmatic configuration produces effects the opposite of those for which it originally was intended. "
170 " Ma mia cara... Lei così attraente e intelligente... Possibile che non abbia una vita affettiva?""Non esiste più nessuno che l'abbia. In questo nostro tempo la gente ha una vita sessuale, non affettiva. Moltissimi stanno persino rinunciando al sesso. Quanto a me, non ho una vita affettiva perché non ho mai incontrato un uomo che sapesse come avere un vita affettiva. Forse neppure io lo so. "
171 " To approach sex carelessly, shallowly, with detachment and without warmth is to dine night after night in erotic greasy spoons. In time one's palate will become insensitive. "
172 " I love hot hand of explosion. I love a breeze perfumed with the devil smell of powder. "
173 " She felt like a black candle at a wake for a snake. "
174 " Ароматът на пържен бекон, кренвирши и шунка се промъкваше на пръсти от крачетата на малко прасенце чак до северния край на втория етаж. Ароматът неизбежно събуждаше Лей-Чери. Ароматът неизбежно я караше да се чувства едновременно изгладняла и отвратена. Тя мразеше това усещане. Напомняше ѝ за бременността. Всяка неделна утрин, въпреки безбрачието, Лей-Чери се събуждаше от тиган с пържен страх. "
175 " to the source), they griped as much as they pleased. The King would stand at a window (during halftime or the seventh-inning stretch) and stare apprehensively at the creeping tide of brambles. “I may be the first monarch in history to be assassinated by blackberries,” he would grumble. His Teflon valve grumbled with him. The Queen caressed her Chihuahua. “You know who lifed "
176 " green sweater "
177 " safe guidelines for your conversation. Mr. Wrangle went one step further. He doesn’t feel it would be emotionally beneficial—for either one of you—to converse at all. He feels that poignant dialogue will merely make your separation "
178 " On Sa-bat, from which comes our Sabbath, men as well as women were commanded to rest, for when the moon menstruated, the taboo was on everyone. Originally (and naturally) observed once a month, the Sabbath was later to be incorporated by the Christians into their Creation myth and made conveniently weekly. "
179 " So nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are relieved from their jobs "
180 " on Sundays because of an archetypal psychological response to menstruation. "