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.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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 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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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