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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
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
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
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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Death Goodness Time
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
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
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Death Hope Life Myself
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
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Herself Home Human People Wife
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word

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