She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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