“Bullshit makes the flowers grow and that is beautiful”

—  Gregory Hill

Source: Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

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American writer and founder of Discordianism 1941–2000

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