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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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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Feeling I Love You Myself
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
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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Creation Lesson Writing Yourself
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Change Explanation Moments Simplicity Time
There 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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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
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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Funny Hate Kindness Oneself War
How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Alive Deep Feeling
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Existence Library Myself Ourselves
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Believe Fantasy Hands Myself Science
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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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future

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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