There 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 VONNEGUTThe 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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And 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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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 universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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