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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

I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward 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
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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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
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
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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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Alone Care Feeling Myself Need People Thinking
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
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
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present

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