All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
KURT VONNEGUTWho is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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