If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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 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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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