There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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