I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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