People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.
("Slaughterhouse-Five")
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.Kurt Vonnegut
Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. They ate snow.
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Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.
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The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it
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Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
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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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