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.
KURT VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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