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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
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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Death Goodness Time
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
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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Kind Myself Place See
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
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
We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Death Hope Life Myself
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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
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

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