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.
KURT VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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