We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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