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

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
~ Tom Robbins ~












There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

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"Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, un...
"He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and lumi...
"Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.
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