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.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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