"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our ...
~ Tom Robbins ~












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