I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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.
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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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