My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
KURT VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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There 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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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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, 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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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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