Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTTake it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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?
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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