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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
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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Gift Herself Life
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
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 have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
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
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Forever Lost Love Place Search
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
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
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
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
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

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