Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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I can have oodles of charm when I want to.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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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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Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
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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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Ting-a-ling mother fucker.
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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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And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
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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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Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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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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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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You were sick, but now you’re well again, and there’s work to do.
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