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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Kurt Vonnegut

When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
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
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
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
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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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
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
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
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
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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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself

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