The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTHere is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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All this happened, more or less.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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