All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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