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.
KURT VONNEGUTWhat 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Science is magic that works.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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