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.
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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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