I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Science is magic that works.
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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 can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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