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?
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Science is magic that works.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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 Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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