And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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