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 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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A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
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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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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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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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If somebody says ‘I love you’ to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? ‘I love you, too’.
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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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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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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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