Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTTake it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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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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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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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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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’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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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