Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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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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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I 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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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