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.
KURT VONNEGUTOf all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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 have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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