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 VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. 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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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