True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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 only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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