And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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