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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.

— Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1976)

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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)

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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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die.

Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

The thunderstorm is a constant phenomenon, raging alternately over some part of the world or the other. Can a single man or creature escape death if all that charge of lightning strikes the earth?

Kalki Krishnamurthy Sivakozhundu of Tiruvazhundur (1939)

So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.

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