How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUTLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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 only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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