Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
KURT VONNEGUTLove 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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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