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.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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