Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
KURT VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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All this happened, more or less.
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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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