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.
KURT VONNEGUTSo 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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