The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
KURT VONNEGUTAll time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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