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“Oh, God—the lives people try to lead. Oh, God—what a world they try to lead them in!”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—: “‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed.”
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
― God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
“Even if there were a culture in which there were no professional musicians, everyone would make music as well as they could anyway, without thinking of personal recompense, because music is ambrosia for the soul.”
― Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
― Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead
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