"The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."

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what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

— Tom Robbins