I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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