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.
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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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 are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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