All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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