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’.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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