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.
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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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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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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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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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