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 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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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