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 VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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