Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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 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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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