Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTSo, 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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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