"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."

--

Source : Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

Tom Robbins

#Believe Quotes #Humor Quotes #Government Quotes

“When all humanity works for humanity, when the life-business of men and women becomes one united partnership in all matters which concern each, when neither sex, race, color, or previous condition is held as a bar to the exercise of human faculties, the world will hold in its hands the promise of a millennium which will work out its own fulfillment.”
“The waist is a terrible thing to mind.”
“By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.”
“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
“Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.”

Source : "Queen of charts". Interview with Chitra Swaminathan, www.thehindu.com. September 6, 2013.
“I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.”
“A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.”

Source : Will Cuppy (1929). “How to be a Hermit: Or, A Bachelor Keeps House”, Castrovilli Giuseppe
“If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.”

You may also like:

Christopher Moore
Writer
Gus Van Sant
Film director
Jack Kerouac
Novelist
Kurt Vonnegut
Writer
Neneh Cherry
Singer-songwriter
Rob Brezsny
Astrologer
Terence McKenna
Philosopher
Terry Pratchett
Author
Tim Robbins
Actor