I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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