Tom Robbins - Skinny Legs and All (1990)

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The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world.

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This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter

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And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

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Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

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The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

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Politics is the science of domination, and the persons in the process of enlargement and illumination are notoriously difficult to control.

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There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

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He glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

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Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

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