I 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.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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