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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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