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We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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