Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTWhen I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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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.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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