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

Kurt Vonnegut

Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
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
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
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
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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
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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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
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
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
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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Death Goodness Time
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World

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