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.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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 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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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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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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