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.
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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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All this happened, more or less.
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