We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUTSo 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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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