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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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
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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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
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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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
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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Forever Gratitude Moments Myself Nice
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
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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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Appearance Instagram Captions People Sanity
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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Funny Hate Kindness Oneself War
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science

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