So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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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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.
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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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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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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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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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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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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It could never be filled by anyone but you.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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