I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
KURT VONNEGUTTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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