She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
KURT VONNEGUTHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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