What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
KURT VONNEGUTHere we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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