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.
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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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