Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
KURT VONNEGUTThe 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.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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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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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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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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 only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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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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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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All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.
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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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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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