If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
KURT VONNEGUTThe nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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 proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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