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.
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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Science is magic that works.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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