Tim Tharp Quotes

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Just remember this- weird's good. Embrace the weird, dude. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

Tim Tharp
The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

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To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

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It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

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Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

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They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

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Goodbye, I say, goodbye, as I disappear little by little into the middle of the middle of my own spectacular now

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You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.

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Beauty's all around me right here. It's not in a textbook. It's not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

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Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

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It's superb to be out in the early, early morning before the sun comes up. There's this sense of being super-alive. You're in on a secret that all the dull, sleeping people don't know about. Unlike them, you're alert and aware of existing right here in this precise moment between what happened and what's going to happen.

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That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

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Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren't really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That's how I felt.

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You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

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That's how our system works. It's a giant con game. One thing gets old, then you have to buy the next thing that gets old, then the next thing. Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

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Books seem a little old-fashioned, but hey, I can do old-fashioned if it's good.

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That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.

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