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Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

Tom Robbins
Men, Giving, Magic
Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.7, Bantam

The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom.

Tom Robbins
People, Giving, Want

For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

Tom Robbins
Self, People, Giving
"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.

Tom Robbins
Simple, Giving, Life Is

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Tom Robbins
Halloween, Giving, Scary
Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.418, Bantam

I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.

Tom Robbins
Giving, Toasters, Want

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