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.
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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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