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?
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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