The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
KURT VONNEGUTLove 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’.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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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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Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
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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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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.
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All this happened, more or less.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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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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