Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUTShe hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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All 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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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