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.
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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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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 yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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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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