Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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 have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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