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.
KURT VONNEGUTThe universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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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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