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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
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
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
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
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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
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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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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People Togetherness
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
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
I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Deep Myself Philosophy
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
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

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