If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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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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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.
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Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.
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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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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
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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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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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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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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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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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The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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