Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
KURT VONNEGUTHere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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