Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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