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.
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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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