There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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 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.
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What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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