I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
KURT VONNEGUTAmericans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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