We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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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 this happened, more or less.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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