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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

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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
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
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Existence God Himself Music Need
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
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
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
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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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Forever Gratitude Moments Myself Nice

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