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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

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
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Man Sadness Word
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Death Goodness Time
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
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
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
Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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One Liner
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Direction Right Wrong
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Appearance Instagram Captions People Sanity
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
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
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
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral 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
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
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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
Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Forever Lost Love Place Search
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
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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 worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Myself Possible Thankful Worst

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