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For practically everybody, the end of the world can’t come soon enough.
“There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time.”
In my novel Cat’s Cradle, I say that anybody whose life keeps tangling up with yours for no logical reason is likely a member of your karass, a team God has formed to get something done for Him.
“If there is a God, He sure hates people. That’s all I can say.”
“Perfectly understandable, Dudley. For anybody who could believe in God, as you once did, it would be a piece of cake to believe in the planet Booboo.”
Eva Braun spoils the moment by swallowing a capsule of cyanide. Goebbels’s wife gave it to her for a wedding present.
I am a philosopher. I have to be.
She had written, and then argued in oral examinations, that all that could be learned from history was that history itself was absolutely nonsensical, so study something else, like music.