One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
KURT VONNEGUTWe could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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All this happened, more or less.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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