And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUTYou were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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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.
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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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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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