Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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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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There 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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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