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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Science is magic that works.
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