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Kurt Vonnegut

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Hate Herself Kindness Moments People
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Acceptance Future
The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Difference Election
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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Angel Evil Goodness Hope Reason
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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Freedom Perfection Talk Writing
All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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Existence Future Moments Past Philosophy Present
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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Beautiful Hurt
There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Book Enough Life Need Oneself Teaching
Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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Disappointment Existence Laughter Limitation Yourself
I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Charm Myself
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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Fight Fools Love People Poison Thinking Yourself
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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Moments Philosophy
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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Care Deep Philosophy Pretend
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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Cold Kindness Summer Winter Yourself
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
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Creation Daring Live Lonely People Youth
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Death Goodness Time
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Funny Instagram Captions Morning Run True Wake Up
Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Greatness Human Literature relief Yourself
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Learning Man Wisdom
If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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Enough Yourself
The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn’t want to be used by anybody.
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Myself Possible Thankful Worst
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
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Gift Herself Life
And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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Goodness Love Moral Myself Yourself
When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Feeling Man Myself Writing
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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Disappoint Existence Laughter
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Development Ourselves Way Wings
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 of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
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Beginning Book End Love Moments Moral Oneself See Time

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

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