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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Herself Home Human People Wife
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
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
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
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
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Cold Kindness Summer Winter 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
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

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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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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