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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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