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 VONNEGUTThe 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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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’.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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