When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
KURT VONNEGUTAll this happened, more or less.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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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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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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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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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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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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