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 VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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