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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
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
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
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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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself Yourself
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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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Death Hope Life Myself
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
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
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself

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