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The moon can't help it. It's only an object. The moon doesn't mean to set things sloshing—in every ocean's basin, in every female's uterus, in every poet's jar of ink, in every madman's drool.

— Tom Robbins Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

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The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

High Times interview (2002)

Sometimes those things that attract the most attention to us are the things that afford us the greatest privacy.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)

Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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