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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.

Kurt Vonnegut

You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
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
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
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
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
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
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
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
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Existence God Himself Music Need
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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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
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
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
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Faith Myself Thinking 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
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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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
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
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
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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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself

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