And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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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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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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