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’.
KURT VONNEGUTMaturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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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.
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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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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