Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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