Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find their mother or their father in their memories anywhere - not anywhere.
The goat farmer, whose name is James Carmalt Adams, Jr., said this about it to me, tapping his forehead with his fingertips: "It isn't the museum, it should be."
The museums in children's minds, I think, automatically empty themselves in times of utmost horror - to protect the children from eternal grief.


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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybod...
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Until you die .. it's all life.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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We could have saved [the Earth] but we were too damned cheap.
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All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to so...
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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And so it goes...
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It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be...
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin...
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I am from a family of artists. Here I am, making a living in the arts. It has not been a rebellion. ...
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If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE...
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, o...
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The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they ...
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Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us e...
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Be aware of this truth that the people on this earth could be joyous, if only they would live ration...
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The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thi...
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Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling ...
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And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
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I still catch myself feeling blue about things that don't matter anymore.
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There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained ci...
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The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental dis...
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Broth...
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All this happened, more or less.
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Here's the news: I am going to sue the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company, manufacturers of Pall...
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Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
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The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the ...
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Life is no way to treat an animal.
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A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which tho...
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I wanted all things
To seem to make some sense,
So we could all be happy, yes,
Instea...
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Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transve...
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't...
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'I...
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Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got t...
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If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

*Harmless untruths
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and...
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Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-co...
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One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or...
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Pr...
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This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to ju...
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My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites,...
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People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism ...
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
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This is a beguiling book,
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and I'm whistling as beautifully as I can.
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Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our P...
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The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
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The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the hu...
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What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as gla...
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Well, I know," she said. "You'll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you'll be played in the...
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I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscie...
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The troops and their ladies had first drunk champagne. There were also remains of sandwiches, and I ...
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Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It m...
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It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagian...
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Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over...
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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless...
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Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.
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How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, sh...
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There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you're right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent ...
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Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will s...
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