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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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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