Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTIf 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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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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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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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