True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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 moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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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