Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTOne 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 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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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 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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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