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.
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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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