Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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