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.
KURT VONNEGUTHow nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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 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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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All this happened, more or less.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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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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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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