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 VONNEGUTMany people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All this happened, more or less.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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