All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTAmericans, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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