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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
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
Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUT

Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
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
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Existence God Himself Music Need
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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
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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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
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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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
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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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself

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