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.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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 is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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