The only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
KURT VONNEGUTThe only proof he needed for existence of god was music.
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’.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd 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.
KURT VONNEGUTWe have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KURT VONNEGUTBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
KURT VONNEGUTMany 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.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
KURT VONNEGUTAnd a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.
KURT VONNEGUTDear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.
KURT VONNEGUTEverything is nothing, with a twist.
KURT VONNEGUTThose who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
KURT VONNEGUTDo 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?
KURT VONNEGUTWhat should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
KURT VONNEGUTSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
KURT VONNEGUTRound and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.
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