All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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