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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
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
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
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
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful

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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