And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
KURT VONNEGUTLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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One 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 are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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