We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTIf 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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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