I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If 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’.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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All this happened, more or less.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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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 a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Science is magic that works.
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