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

— 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.

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)

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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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

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

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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