We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
KURT VONNEGUTCharm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
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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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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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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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Maturity, is knowing what your limitations are, Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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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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We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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Science is magic that works.
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