If you can do no good, at least do no harm.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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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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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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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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