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?
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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Science is magic that works.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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