And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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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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