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 can have oodles of charm when I want to.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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