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.
KURT VONNEGUTDo 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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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