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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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 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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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