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While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.
You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
