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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
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
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Appearance Instagram Captions People Sanity
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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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself 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
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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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Herself Home Human People Wife
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World

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