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 VONNEGUTI tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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We’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.
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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