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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
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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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
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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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
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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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
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
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
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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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
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
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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People Survive Thinking Training
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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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself

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