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?
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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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 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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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