"To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?"

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Source : "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

Tom Robbins

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“The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.”
“Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.”
“Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.”
“Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.”

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“Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.”
“I lie! I cheat! I steal!”
“In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.”

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