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.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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