"Tin habitually broadcasts extra electrons, and those superfluous particles create a barrier against acids in the foodstuff that would otherwise corrode the can, slowly weakening it from within, the way political convictions weaken morality and religious convictions weaken the mind."
"Freedom's glare is too bright for many. They panic when any sudden gust lifts the hem of the brocade. Eyes blinking frantically, they'll cling with their last broken nail to the protective folds of social control."
"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other people's 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."
"not only is religion divisive and oppressive, it is also a denial of all that is devine in people; it is a suffocation of the soul."
"Art is a plexus of forces and influences that act upon the senses by means of practical yet permanently inexplicable secret links."
"But it was her manner as much as her looks that turned men's hearts into squirrel cages."
"The level of structure that people seek always is in direct ratio to the amount of chaos they have inside."
"Humanity was a function of nature. It could not, therefore, live separately from nature except in a schizophrenic crime. And it could not blind itself to the wonders of nature without mutating into something too monstrous to love."
Tom Robbins - Skinny Legs and All
Chris Yvon
7 years ago
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