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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
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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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
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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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
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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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
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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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

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