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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Kurt Vonnegut

If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Feeling I Love You Myself
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
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.
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Death Goodness Time
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election

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