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When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

— Tom Robbins The Syntax of Sorcery (2012)

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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.

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

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

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Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.

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