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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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