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.
KURT VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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