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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.

Kurt Vonnegut

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Control Human Life Love Purpose
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
All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beautiful Happiness Myself Right Walk Yourself
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
My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Life Love Myself Yourself
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
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
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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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
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?
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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
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
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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Death Goodness 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
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
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
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Hard Himself Ignorance Learning Man People Wisdom
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science

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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