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.
KURT VONNEGUTWe’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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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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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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