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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

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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Kind Myself Place See
You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Sick Yourself
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
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
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
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
Science is magic that works.
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Magic One Liner Science
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
All this happened, more or less.
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Action One Liner
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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Death Hope Life Myself
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
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
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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Happiness Myself Point Thinking Yourself
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
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
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
I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Alcohol Myself Night
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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Herself Home Human People Wife
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
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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Brave Happiness Health Kind Live Truth
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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Break God Help Man Myself Pain
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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Animal Moments Philosophy Yourself
We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Poor Save World
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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

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