Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTIf you can do no good, at least do no harm.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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