Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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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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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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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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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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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 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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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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Science is magic that works.
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All this happened, more or less.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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