The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Science is magic that works.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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