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?
KURT VONNEGUTHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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 it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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 anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Science is magic that works.
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