I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Science is magic that works.
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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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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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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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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 can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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