We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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