The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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