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.
KURT VONNEGUTIf I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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All this happened, more or less.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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