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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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