All this happened, more or less.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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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