You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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