"Jitterbug Perfume" Quotes
"Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins is a whimsical and philosophical novel that intertwines the quest for immortality, the search for a mysterious perfume, and the adventures of eccentric characters across centuries and continents.
fiction | 342 pages | Published in 1984
Quotes
To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for success; they are cowards, they are living dead. The way to blossom, is to go the selfish route. You have to think of yourself, for the sake of your sanity.
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe.
Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for success; they are cowards, they are living dead.
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
It is the artist's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.
If you lack the iron and the fuzz to take control of your own life, if you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense.
The unhappy person is never present in the here and now.
The beet is the most intense of vegetables.
