I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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