There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
KURT VONNEGUTThere is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
KURT VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
KURT VONNEGUTLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTMy life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
KURT VONNEGUTShe hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTSo 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 VONNEGUTTo practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUTA sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
KURT VONNEGUTWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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 VONNEGUTI 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.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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