All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTShe hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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The 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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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