True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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