I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
KURT VONNEGUTAmericans, 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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.
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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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 you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Science is magic that works.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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