Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
KURT VONNEGUTWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All this happened, more or less.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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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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