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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues QUOTES

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues QUOTES

1 " There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

2 " ...disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.... "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

3 " I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political; they're philosophical. Until humans can solve their philosophical problems, they're condemned to solve their political problems over and over and over again. It's a cruel, repetitious bore. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

4 " The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

5 " A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time. A book may measure so-called reality as a clock measures so-called time; a book may create an illusion of reality as a clock creates an illusion of time; a book may be real, just as a clock is real (both more real, perhaps, than those ideas to which they allude); but let's not kid ourselves - all a clock contains is wheels and springs and all a book contains is sentences. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

6 " They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leadership that will. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

7 " Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

8 " The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

9 " It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping.
Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets.
It weeps
for the black people who think like white people.
It weeps
for the Indians who think like settlers.
It weeps
for the children who think like adults.
It weeps
for the free who think like prisoners.
Most of all, it weeps
for the cowgirls who think like cowboys. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

10 " If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

11 " The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

12 " The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

13 " Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

14 " In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

15 " Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

16 " Cries for help are frequently inaudible. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

17 " the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

18 " You’ve remained on the battleground, center stage, experiencing life and, what’s more important, experiencing yourself experiencing it. You haven't been reduced to a logistical strategy for somebody else's life-war. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

19 " Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It's their favorite word, next to 'power.'

'Gotta stabilize the political situation in Southeast Asia, gotta stabilize oil production and consumption, gotta stabilize student opposition to the government' and so forth.

Stabilization to them means order, uniformity, control. And that's a half-witted and potentially genocidal misconception. No matter how thoroughly they control a system, disorder invariably leaks into it. Then the managers panic, rush to plug the leak and endeavor to tighten the controls. Therefore, totalitarianism grows in viciousness and scope. And the blind pity is, rigidity isn't the same as stability at all.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

20 " Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES. "

― Tom Robbins , Even Cowgirls Get the Blues