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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
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
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
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
Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Forever Lost Love Place Search
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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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Herself Home Human People Wife
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
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

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