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.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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