One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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We’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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Love 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 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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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