The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTHere is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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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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