Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTLive by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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