Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTA purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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All this happened, more or less.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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