All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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