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.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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 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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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