All this happened, more or less.
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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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Science is magic that works.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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