Tom Robbins : Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

There are many things worth living for,
a few worth dying for,
and none worth killing for.

Freedom is more important than happiness
[something lots of people I respect believe, though there are still more important things]

"This movement, does it have slogans?"
"Right on" (and they quoted some)
"Does it have a flag?"
"You bet."
"And does your movement have leaders?"
"Great leaders."
"Then shove it up your butt."
[cf Milan Kundera on Kitsch]

Take chances
court danger
welcome anxiety
flaunt insecurity
rock every boat
always cut against the grain.

Take note, dear person, of your immediate position, become for a second exactly identical with yourself, glimpse yourself removed from the fatuous habits of progress as well as from the tragic implications of destiny, and, instead, see that you are an eternal creature fixed against the wide grin of the horizon; and having experienced, thus, what it is like to be attuned to the infinite universe, return to the temporal world lightly and gladhearted, knowing that all the art and science of the twentieth century cannot prevent this clock from striking agin, and in no precision Swiss-made mechanisms can the reality of this kind of time be surpassed.

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