Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
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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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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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