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Moments Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never…
- Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
- There is no WHY, since the moment simply is, and since all of us are simply trapped in the moment, like bugs in Amber.
- Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
- - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this…
- If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
- She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
- 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…
- If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to…
- 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…
- All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
- There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce…
- When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the…
- Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
- Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
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