Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Science is magic that works.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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