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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
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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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
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
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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

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