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Apr. 23rd, 2004 | 05:09 pm
"...He said that when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it."
"He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery, or fishing and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door.
"Uncle Alex urged me to say this our loud during such epiphanies: 'If this isn't nice, what is?' "
Kurt Vonnegut
"Timequake"
"He was talking about simple occasions, not great victories: maybe drinking lemonade on a hot afternoon in the shade, or smelling the aroma of a nearby bakery, or fishing and not caring if we catch anything or not, or hearing somebody all alone playing a piano really well in the house next door.
"Uncle Alex urged me to say this our loud during such epiphanies: 'If this isn't nice, what is?' "
Kurt Vonnegut
"Timequake"