Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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