Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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