We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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 only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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