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
Related She was—of course—perfectly normal— quiet and polite and reasonably intelligent... TAH THE TRICKSTER It is double pleasing to trick the trickster. JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Hermes, we love you," Hades said, "but you rarely do as you're told, and you always do as you wish, ... MOLLY RINGLE It's a double pleasure to trick the trickster. JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. JAMES HOWE When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you canno... JOY HARJO Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. Peopl... BYRD GIBBENS If there was a trick, there must be a trickster. DOROTHY MILLER RICHARDSON Trickster stories are pleasurable, contradictory, annoying, abrasive. They're powerful, transfor... GERALD VIZENOR Learn tricks from others, Become a trickster MATT THOMAS The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN It is more important to be free than to be happy. TOM ROBBINS The rabbit or hare in Native American folklore is a trickster, as it is in European folklore. Throug... HOWARD SPENCER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There is nothing encouraging about fortune and thus one must remain indifferent by it for it is a tr... CHIRAG TULSIANI Mercy has this ... this uncanny ability to go where the trouble is thickest," Adam told him. He had ... PATRICIA BRIGGS Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for th... TOM HIDDLESTON The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really me... ZOOEY DESCHANEL All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you c... CHRISTOPHER MOORE Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything ... JONATHAN MABERRY At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words. CHELSEA HOBBS People want to create something bigger for themselves, and making up drama that isn't there give... ALESSIA CARA Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look a... DANIEL LIBESKIND Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in m... BOBBY SANDS Sometimes, take a moment and ponder; yes, take a moment and stir your life just as you stir that del... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I had an idea of what David Kelley wanted the character to do, ... He really wanted this very sort o... JAMES SPADER Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th... THE CREE PEOPLE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I didn't invent satire. I didn't come up with it. And it will continue to be a very powerful... BASSEM YOUSSEF until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don'... ASHTON KUTCHER The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo... BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than
the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus.
-Julia W-. JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the... JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ... SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. ADLAI E. STEVENSON In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. CAITLIN MORAN Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed... TAMORA PIERCE Prometheus - trickster, rebel and hero - links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, wit... NEIL MACGREGOR In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. JOHN C. MAXWELL The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and ... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An... BEN CARSON In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay. LANE GARRISON Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself. ANDRES INIESTA Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness. BILL MCCARTNEY At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy. EARL SWEATSHIRT How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. Trust the young people; trust this generation's innovation. They're making things, changing ... JACK MA He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani... SUSAN HUBBARD Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneou... GEORGE WILL The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me O... ROBINSON JEFFERS Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is... C. JOYBELL C. I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it'... PATRICK O'BRIAN In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown... TOVE JANSSON The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ... WINSTON CHURCHILL Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they... MILTON FRIEDMAN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews. ED WESTWICK I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end. CECELIA AHERN Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the ... EMIR KUSTURICA There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the wo... BRADLEY COOPER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks ro... MELISSA ROSENBERG One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's no... JAMES PATTERSON What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some wa... MEG WHITMAN In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show. MARILYN MANSON Tomas turned the key and switched on the ceiling light. Teraza saw two beds pushed together, one of ... MILAN KUNDERA She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of ... MARIO PUZO We want to create a stir. GINNY WHISKEYMAN Even if you look at the 'Paranormal Activity' movies, at the end of the movie things get rea... OREN PELI The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that ... GABY HOFFMANN At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth. DAN GERTLER Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence. VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. BONO In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people... MEGAN FOX It looks so difficult, yet somehow, somewhere easiest to gain the STARDOM; easier to build the KINGD... ANUJ SOMANY We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d... MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the po... MACAULAY CULKIN At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail. VICTOR CRUZ Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham ARIEL SERAPHINO I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringi... A.L. DAVROE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w... JOHN BOYEGA There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun ... MOSE ALLISON I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. SWAMI SIVANANDA
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