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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
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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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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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Kind Myself Place See
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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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Forever Lost Love Place Search
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
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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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
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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Gift Herself Life
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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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
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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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul

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