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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
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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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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Different Myself Yourself
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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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Herself Home Human People Wife
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
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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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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People Survive Thinking Training
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt

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