Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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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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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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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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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