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.
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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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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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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