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.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Science is magic that works.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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