I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
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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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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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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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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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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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And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
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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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