How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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