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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Leadership Wings
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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Funny Instagram Captions Morning Run True Wake Up
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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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Gift Herself Life
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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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Funny Hate Kindness Oneself War
Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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One Liner Philosophy
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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Forever Lost Love Place Search
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Appearance Instagram Captions People Sanity
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
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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Forever Gratitude Moments Myself Nice
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
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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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
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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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
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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Darkness Inspirational See Yourself
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom

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