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.
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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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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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