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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Quote

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
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And I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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I used to be funny, and perhaps I'm not anymore. It may be that I have become rather grumpy because I've seen so many things that have offended me that I cannot deal with in terms of laughter.
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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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All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
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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.
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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