Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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