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Kurt Vonnegut


I want to stay 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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

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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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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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There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

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