If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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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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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 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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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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