"I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material."

-- Jerry Garcia

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“Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.”

Source : "Life of Brian" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2005.
“Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.”
“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”

Source : "Evelina: Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World".
“A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.”
“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”
“Study the behavior of animals and you will understand human psychology and sociology. Study a flower excited under sunlight, and you will understand how all living things respond to light. The Almighty has provided everything in nature. Observe nature and you will grow. The cures of all illnesses are found in nature in the shapes of the body parts they were created to cure.”
“A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?”
“The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.”

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