My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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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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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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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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