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

— Tom Robbins High Times interview (2002)

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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)

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

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It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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Tolerant people are the happiest, so why not get rid of prejudices that hold you back?

William Moulton Marston Your Life What are your prejudices? (1939)

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