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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

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
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
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
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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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Big Place World
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
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
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

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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