If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All this happened, more or less.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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