Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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