The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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