Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
KURT VONNEGUTDo you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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