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 VONNEGUT
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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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