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.
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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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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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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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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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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