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• Since we remember only our ordeals, it is ultimately the sick, the persecuted, the victims in every realm who will have lived to the best advantage.
  The others - the lucky ones - have a life, of course, but not the memory of a life....
• Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it.
  If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information....
• The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
  Colleges may be to blame. English majors are encouraged, I know, to hate chemistry and physics, and to be proud because they are not dull and creepy and humorless and war-oriented like the engineers across the quad....
• Talk about excitement. If you really want to have excitement in your life, try raising rabbits.
  Every day is a hare raising event! (I think it is time for an apology, sorry, really sorry about this one!...
• If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
  I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been this trip....
• If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make mistakes next time.
  I'd relax, I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I been this trip....
• Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
  -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....