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 VONNEGUTAll 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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 proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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