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Away Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,…
- The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from…
- That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew…
- ... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...
- World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other just…
- In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
- Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
- It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
- I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only…
- Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always…
- I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath…
- Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius