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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
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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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

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