You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
KURT VONNEGUTA purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies- God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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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Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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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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