We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUTAll right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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Science is magic that works.
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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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All this happened, more or less.
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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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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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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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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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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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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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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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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