"Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
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"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
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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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"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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"All this happened, more or less."
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"That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
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"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
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"Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema."
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"It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell."
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"I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'"
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"What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death."
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"Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside."
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"A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."
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"Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
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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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"Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."
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"Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed."
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"It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is."
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"He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest."
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"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
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