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41 " I can't help it. My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things "
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Bluebeard
42 " Oh happy Meat. Oh happy Soul. Oh happy Rabo Karabekian. "
43 " The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War. "
44 " Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything? "
45 " You have to go, but I have to stay. "
46 " We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. "
47 " Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren?Do I care?Doesn't everybody?Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind! "
48 " 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. "
49 " It was an age of Empires. So is this one, not all that well disguised. "
50 " I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies. "
51 " Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way. "
52 " Contentedly adrift in the cosmos. That is a perfect description of a non-epiphany, that rarest of moments, when God Almighty lets go of the scruff of your neck and lets you be human for a little while. How long did the feeling last? "
53 " One would soon go mad if one took such coincidences too seriously. One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. "
54 " The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It's always men against women, with the men only pretending to fight among themselves. "
55 " Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes. "
56 " I concluded that my mind was so ordinary, which is to say empty, that I could never be anything but a reasonably good camera. "
57 " I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think. "
58 " the people of the united states were...spoiled children, who are begging for a frightening but just daddy to tell them exactly what to do "
59 " I can’t help it,” I said. “My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things.” “Your what and your what?” he said. “My soul and my meat,” I said. “They’re separate?” he said. “I sure hope they are,” I said. I laughed. “I would hate to be responsible for what my meat does. "
60 " During that war we had a word for extreme man-made disorder which was fubar, an acronym for 'fucked up beyond all recognition.' Well - the whole planet is now fubar with postwar miracles, but, back in the early 1960s, I was one of the first persons to be totally wrecked by one - an acrylic wall-paint whose colors, according to advertisements of the day, would '... outlive the smile on the "Mona Lisa".'The name of the paint was Sateen Dura-Luxe. Mona Lisa is still smiling. "