And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUTTake it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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 are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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