“here we are, trapped in the amber of this moment. there is no why.”
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I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Every sentence must do one of two things: reveal character or advance the action.
– Kurt Vonnegut
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"You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
~ Kurt Vonnegut
[Ian Sanders]
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It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.
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“Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Any artist of any kind has to be able to stomach falling short of the mark, continually, in all kinds of ways. But perhaps especially when starting out.
- Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne McConnell, Pity The Reader: On Writing With Style
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
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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.
Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
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