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The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 2 | Location 61-62 2020-04-26 01:20:44
The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 3 | Location 77-77 2020-04-26 01:21:51
Between Timid and Timbuktu. It had been reasonably well received. The title derived from the fact that all the words between timid and Timbuktu in very small dictionaries relate to time.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 6 | Location 120-122 2020-04-26 18:03:51
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 8 | Location 144-145 2020-04-26 18:10:57
"What a charming concept—someone’s liking you up there."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 15 | Location 225-226 2020-04-26 18:16:27
everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 20 | Location 294-295 2020-04-26 18:20:35
What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She had overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 36 | Location 491-493 2020-04-26 18:37:08
"The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms," said Beatrice.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 37 | Location 506-507 2020-04-26 18:38:09
"What name’s that?" said Constant, who had forgotten the foolish
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 44 | Location 586-586 2020-04-26 18:43:24
"I said you’ve got an unusual first name," said the pilot. "What name’s that?" said Constant, who had forgotten the foolish first name he had chosen for his disguise. "Jonah," said the pilot.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 44 | Location 585-587 2020-04-26 18:43:29
"You go up to a man, and you say, ’How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ’Oh, fine, fine—couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 66 | Location 863-866 2020-04-26 23:41:14
Everything that ever was always will be, and everything that ever will be always was."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 292 | Location 3677-3678 2020-04-30 22:39:54
I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I’ve been.
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 301 | Location 3797-3798 2020-04-30 22:46:59
"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody," she said, "would be to not be used for anything by anybody."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 317 | Location 3988-3989 2020-04-30 22:57:55
"I would say, ’Is there anything I can do?’—but Skip once told me that that was the most hateful and stupid expression in the English language."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 320 | Location 4027-4029 2020-04-30 22:59:45
"It took us that long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
<The Sirens of Titan>(Vonnegut, Kurt) Your Highlight on page 320 | Location 4032-4033 2020-04-30 22:59:59