When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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