All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
KURT VONNEGUTYou were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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 you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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