You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Love 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’.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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