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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

Kurt Vonnegut

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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Gift Herself Life
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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Alive Last Myself People Powerful
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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Appearance Mindset Person Stranger Trust
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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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People Survive Thinking Training
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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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Art Growth Myself Practice Self Love Soul
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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Forever Lost Love Place Search
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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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Death Expectation Humanity Reward Yourself
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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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Existence God Himself Music Need
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Faith Myself Thinking Yourself

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