And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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