I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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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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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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