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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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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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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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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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