Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTOne 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 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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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