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.
KURT VONNEGUTWhen I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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 was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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