Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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