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 VONNEGUTAll moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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There 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.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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