The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
KURT VONNEGUTI 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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 have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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 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.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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