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 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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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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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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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