If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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Maturity, 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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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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