True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTWhat 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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Here 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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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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