Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTThere are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.
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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 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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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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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
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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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Science is magic that works.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
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