Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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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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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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