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?
KURT VONNEGUT
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?
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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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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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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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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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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