All 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.
KURT VONNEGUTLove 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’.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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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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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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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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