"I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud."
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"You are pooped and demoralised,” read Dwayne. “Why wouldn’t you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn’t meant to be reasonable."
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"As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said."
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"We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained."
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"One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters."
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"Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not."
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"My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now."
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"Never schedule a board meeting on Wednesday because it kills two weekends."
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"People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore."
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"When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away."
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"[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town."
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"It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out."
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"The artist makes his living by pretending, by putting it in a meaningful hole though no such holes exist."
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"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."
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"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting."
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"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
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"Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
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"In this world, you get what you pay for."
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"The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
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"She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies."
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