And 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.
KURT VONNEGUTWe’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.
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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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?
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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All this happened, more or less.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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