Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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