Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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?
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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