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’.
KURT VONNEGUTOne 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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.
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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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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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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 a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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