I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
KURT VONNEGUTThere 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for–to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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