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.
KURT VONNEGUTI 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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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