Kurt Vonnegut on care
Kurt Vonnegut73 quotes“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
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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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut All right – I’ll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut Americans, are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.
Kurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut 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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Ludwig WittgensteinLudwig Wittgenstein Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.
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Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette We have not come here to beg world leaders to care. You have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. You’ve run out of excuses and we’re running out of time. We’ve come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not.
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