There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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 can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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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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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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Science is magic that works.
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