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.
KURT VONNEGUTMy life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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