True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
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Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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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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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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All this happened, more or less.
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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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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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How nice – to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
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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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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
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There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
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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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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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We’d been apart so long-I’d been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you’d built a new life, with no room in it for me. I’d hoped that.
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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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.
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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.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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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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The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
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