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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Funny Instagram Captions Morning Run True Wake Up
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
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
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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People Survive Thinking Training
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
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
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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Kind Myself Place See
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
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
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

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