Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTCan 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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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.
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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.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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