Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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