So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
KURT VONNEGUTMy life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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