Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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