My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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