Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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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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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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