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.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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