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.
KURT VONNEGUTIf 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’.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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