A Quote by Tom Robbins

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

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Freedom Break Create End Function Gives In The End Mischief People Really Some Sort Stir Things Up Want

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Tom Robbins
American - Novelist
Born: July 22, 1936

Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves.

George Carlin

Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

Russell Brand

Trickster, love will be the end of you.

Michael Buckley

How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?

Kehinde Wiley

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

Dorothy Richardson

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

Frances Mayes

I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful tool to disrupt political taboos and social taboos and religious taboos, because those taboos are always used to control and to curb people's way of creativity and thinking, by making them feel guilty because they want to make a change.