There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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Science is magic that works.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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And 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.
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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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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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