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Kurt Vonnegut

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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
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
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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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Gift Herself Life
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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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Funny Hate Kindness Oneself War
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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

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