The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTWe are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency’.
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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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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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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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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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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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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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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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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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