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.
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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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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