The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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  1. A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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  3. Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, 'Please...

  4. If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

  5. And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

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