words.amniisia.com

This site is no longer being kept up to date, but it has some nice quotes from past reads.

Tom Robbins   ::   Skinny Legs and All

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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."
"Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark."
...you recall that someone once said, "The purpose of art is to provide what life does not."
"Our similarities provide us with a common ground, but our differences allow us to be fascinated by one another. Differences give human encounters their snap and their fizz and their brew."
His son wasted hours trying to convince him to sue his doctors. "A bad hospital it may be, but the New York state lottery it's not ... I'm earning my money the old-fashioned way."
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