1,579 Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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    People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

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    When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

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    Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

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    Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

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    The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky – as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

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    Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: 'Just say no.'

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    Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.

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    Here we are trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

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