QUOTES by Altering Kurt
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"That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones."
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"Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy."
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"I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead."
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"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did'."
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"I wanted all things To seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, Instead of tense. And I made up lies So that they all fit nice, And I made this sad world A par-a-dise."
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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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"Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?"
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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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"All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
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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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"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
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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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"I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone."
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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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"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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"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
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"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."
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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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"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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"Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum."
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"The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon."
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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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"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
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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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"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"
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