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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?

Kurt Vonnegut

You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
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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Herself Home Human People Wife
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
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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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
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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Kind Myself Place See
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself Yourself

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