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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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