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.
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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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 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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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