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.
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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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