You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTAll 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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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’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Science is magic that works.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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