We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUTLove 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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Science is magic that works.
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