How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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