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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.

Kurt Vonnegut

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
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
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
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
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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Cleaning Laughter Myself Tears
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
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
If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Goodness Kindness Yourself
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
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 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
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
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
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
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

Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.

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